028 - Menopause and Friendship - Kate Parr & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this week's podcast, Dr Louise Newson is talking with one of her closest friends, Kate Parr, about her reasons for setting up Newson Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre. Kate encouraged Dr Newson to start educating women about the perimenopause and menopause by hosting a lunch in her house a few years ago, to which many of their friends were invited. Both ladies were really surprised with how eager women were to learn about menopause and how little they knew about something that they will all experience. This inspired Louise to continue to educate and empower women with the right knowledge, so that they can make evidence-based decisions regarding their future health during their menopause. In this episode, Louise and Kate also discuss why talking about menopause to our friends and families is so important.
Kate Parr's Three Take Home Tips:
- Be informed! Find out everything you can about the menopause, from reliable sources.
- Talk to your girlfriends and support each other.
- Mothers - talk to your sons and daughters about how you are feeling. Educate them so that, in the future, they know what to expect and know that it's okay to talk about it.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Dr Louise Newsome, a GP and menopause specialist, |
| 0:15.0 | and I run the Newston Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:30.4 | So today I've managed to drag one of my really good friends here into my clinic just to talk really about how much earbashing she's had from me over the last few years about |
| 0:36.3 | the menopause. So Kate, welcome. Thank you for coming. |
| 0:40.1 | I hope it will be a pleasure, Louise. So obviously we've known each other for quite a while. |
| 0:45.5 | And when I first met you, I wasn't really talking very much about the menopause. And now all I do is talk to you about the menopause, I think. |
| 0:52.6 | Yeah, taking me back to the good old days, Louise, when we used to have other conversations |
| 0:55.7 | about other things. |
| 0:56.9 | Not anymore. |
| 0:58.4 | So when did I first lure you into this whole menopause conversation? |
| 1:03.1 | Well, I can remember coming round one day just before your youngest daughter was about to start |
| 1:07.7 | full-time school. |
| 1:09.5 | And you were sitting, wondering what you were going |
| 1:11.5 | to do with all this extra time that you had available and you said to me do you think women |
| 1:18.9 | would be interested in finding out a bit more about the menopause because at the time you were |
| 1:23.7 | seeing a lot of ladies who were struggling at your practice in Shirley. Yeah. |
| 1:29.8 | And I said, well, we could give it a go. And we organ, do you remember the lunch we organised? |
| 1:33.8 | Yeah, absolutely. Because I think that was just after the nice guidelines came out, weren't they? |
| 1:39.1 | So the nice, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence, Menopause guidelines were published in November |
| 1:45.2 | 2015. And like you rightly say, in my general practice, I have for years and years seen |
| 1:50.9 | menopals or women and helped them and it's been very rewarding. But when the guidelines came out, |
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