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 very excited to have Emma Ellis Flint, who is now officially the most frequent podcaster that I have on my series. As some of you know, Emma is a nutritionist that

works very closely with us in the clinic.

And we thought we would record something a bit different today.

There's so much uncertainty in the world with coronavirus.

And there's a lot of panic buying.

Every time I go to the supermarket, there's various items that we can't get.

So Emma and I thought it would be really useful to just share some

thoughts that, well, we, but especially Emma has regarding how we can eat properly and really

look after ourselves because looking after ourselves and our families and our loved ones is

really crucial. So thanks for joining me today, Emma. That's a pleasure, Louise, yeah.

So really difficult times. There's a lot of uncertainty in the world. There's a lot of stress.

There's a lot of, a lot of worry. Everyone's got something that's affecting them. And lots of

us have got more than one thing. So we know, we've talked about it before, how important

nutrition is for our health,

but also our well-being and our mental well-being as well. So talk me through some really

simple tips that we can do to help us. Yes, thanks Louise. Look, it really is. And I think

hopefully this is really quite simple for people because there are things

people can do. It made me laugh actually the other day when I did go into the supermarket because

the parts of the aisles that were empty were things like rice and pasta. And in fact, those are exactly

not the foods that are going to boost your immunity. Those foods don't have the nutrients in them that are actually immune boosting.

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