043 - Changing the Language Around Menopause and Midlife - Lorraine Candy & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Dr Louise Newson is joined (virtually!) by Lorraine Candy - co-founder of the podcast series 'Postcards from Midlife'. Lorraine and Dr Newson chat about the stigma surrounding the word “menopause” and how we need to work together in order to break that down and really empower women so they can receive the correct help and treatment. They also discuss menopausal symptoms such as anxiety and fatigue and how they can have a massive, negative impact on women's lives if left untreated.
Dr Newson and Lorraine also talk about how important it is for women to receive the right dose and type of HRT. Many women wrongly think that HRT is a single treatment, whereas in fact, there are different hormones available and also different doses. The importance of exercise, nutrition and wellbeing is also discussed. Lorraine also talks very openly about her own experience and how she struggled for several years before receiving the right help.
Follow Lorraine on Instagram:
@sundaytimeslorraine
@postcardsfrommidlife
Lorraine Candy's Three Take Home Tips:
- Feel your power - you have lived an amazing life and have an enormous amount of experience. Don't let that inner voice tell you you don't have the confidence.
- Arm yourself with information before any visits. Seek out the facts and write them down so you don't forget.
- Talk to your friends, family and other women about what you're going through. Let's spread the word!
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, |
| 0:15.1 | and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:29.5 | So today with me in my podcast, I'm really thrilled to have Lorraine Candy, who is the editor-in-chief for Sunday Times Style magazine. She's also a family columnist for the Sunday |
| 0:34.7 | Times magazine. And more recently, she's been co-hosting a fabulous podcast called |
| 0:39.6 | Postcards from Midlife. So welcome Lorraine. Thanks for coming on today. Hi, Melissa. So we met in |
| 0:46.5 | real life a few months ago because you were doing a feature, weren't you, for the Times Style magazine |
| 0:51.2 | about spas and as many of you know I do not run a spa. I run a menopause and |
| 0:55.7 | well-being centre and you were really struggling to find somewhere that offered holistic care. |
| 1:01.2 | So I enticed you up to my clinic for a day's experience and when you were there, obviously |
| 1:07.0 | I started talking about your own experience. So I'm really delighted that you're going to share some of your story with us today. |
| 1:13.7 | Yes, I think it was, I was just perplexed that there was nowhere to go if you were a woman in your kind of mid-40s to 60 that focused specifically on that part, because it is a very holistic thing that is needed. |
| 1:29.1 | And what is not needed is unnecessary intervention that's kind of very costly or, you know, yoga's not going to |
| 1:35.0 | cure the perimen anymore. So I was bizarre that I couldn't, we tried the whole of Europe and we do a big |
| 1:42.3 | spa special. So we try and tell a story behind each of |
| 1:45.6 | the pieces that we do so it's not just about kind of going away and relaxing it's about a journey |
| 1:50.6 | of some sort and i couldn't find anywhere in europe or a bit more in america in europe or in the |
| 1:57.0 | UK that addressed the very specific symptoms of menopause and perimenopause and would be |
| 2:02.3 | helpful, I think, for that group of women and also not taking advantage of that group of women, |
| 2:06.6 | which I could find a lot of those doing that. Yeah, and it's a huge thing because, as you know, |
| 2:12.3 | menopause is just a word, it's a natural transition that happens to all of us if we live long enough. |
| 2:16.9 | And a lot of people think |
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