Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast.

I'm Dr Louise Newsome, a GP and menopause specialist,

and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon.

So today I'm doing something a bit different.

I've got a double podcast here.

I've not got one person but two people.

So I'm delighted I've got Meg Matthews, who's come up out of London to my clinic in Stratupon-Avon. And I've also got Athena Lamnissos, who's the CEO from Eva Peel. So I thought we'll do just something a bit different

today. I wanted to really talk about when is the right time to talk about not just the menopause,

but the perimenopause as well, which is the time when periods start

changing in frequency on nature and people, women experience symptoms. So hi, both. Thanks for coming.

So Meg, this is quite relevant for you we were talking earlier because if you'd been given a bit of

information when you were younger, you might not have had such a dreadful experience, which we've all heard about your...

Yeah, I totally agree with you.

When do you think it's a good time?

Well, the more I'm thinking about it more and learning now, I think the younger, the better.

I think, you know, everything that Diane got with the amazing news about, you know, menopause.

Yeah, just to announce that.

Education.

So Diane Danzabrun is the most amazing menopause campaigner.

She's also a psychotherapist and counsellor and a great friend of mine.

And so we have been liaising with Rachel McLean, who is an MP, who's also, coincident, it's funny,

I met her at a NCT class.

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