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 I'm very excited today to be recording with someone who isn't with me in my clinic for a change, someone who is many miles away, the other side of the pond, as they say, in America.

In front of me today, Avram Blooming, who I first met

over a year ago at a conference at the Royal Society. And his work has been amazing. His book that we

will talk about is incredible. He used to be a professor of medicine in the University of Southern

California, but he is tirelessly campaigning for,

I would say, women's rights. I don't know how you feel, Avram, with saying that. But firstly,

just thank you ever so much for giving up your time to talk to me today. It's a pleasure.

And women's rights are, in fact fact what is being discussed.

Yes, and actually it's very pertinent because today is the International Women's Day,

which we were talking about before we started recording, which is very key,

because it's about women having an equal voice and an equal right.

And sadly, as some of you know who have listened to me before,

I get incredibly frustrated that a lot of women are not being given an equal voice because

they're not given the right care or treatment for their perimenopause and menopause.

So when we first met Avran, we were both talking actually, weren't we, in this conference at the

Royal Society in London, and it was about patient choice. And you'd come over to the UK, and your book

had fairly recently been published, hadn't it, around that time? That week, yes. Yes. So tell us a bit

about the book. And maybe before you talk about the book, tell us a bit

about your background, your professional background, if you don't mind. I don't mind. I'm primarily a

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