044 - Gransnet & the Menopause - Cari Rosen & Dr Louise Newson

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Dr Louise Newson chats to Cari Rosen; author, writer and editor of Gransnet.com.

Gransnet was set up following the success of Mumsnet. Gransnet has 320k users, bringing in 3 million page views a month. Many perimenopausal and menopausal women feel socially isolated and alone when they experience symptoms that often they don't even realise are related to their reducing hormone levels. It can be very useful to share symptoms and also discuss experiences with other women. Increasingly, women are turning to platforms such as Gransnet where they can be frank and open with people they don't know and seek out support at various times of the day and night. In this podcast, Dr Newson and Cari discuss the various ways women can support each other during the perimenopause and menopause, as well as dispelling some myths about the menopause and HRT along the way.

www.gransnet.com

Cari Rosen's Three Take Home Tips and reasons to visit Gransnet:

Know you're not alone - there is always someone to talk to.
Share your experiences. It can be so helpful to talk to someone who has gone through something similar and come out the other side.
If you are feeling frustrated, it's good to share those frustrations with others that aren't your nearest and dearest.

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.
0:30.7	So today I'm very lucky to have with me, Carrie Rosen, who is the editor of Gransnet.
0:35.3	We recently came connected over a survey that we're going to discuss.
0:38.4	Many of you listening will have heard of Grands Net, and I'm sure the majority of you listening would have heard of Mumsnet. So welcome, Carrie. Thanks for coming.
0:44.5	Pleasure. So tell me just a bit about Gransnet, although it's got an older sounding name,
0:50.3	it's not as old as Mumsnet, is it? No. Well, I suppose the daughter, but should be mother
0:56.5	sight of Mamsnet or sister site, whichever way you lifted. But we do pretty much the same thing.
1:02.6	The beating heart of the site is the forums, where people can come and talk about literally
1:06.6	anything from what was on the telly last night, to what I have for tea, what's in the news,
1:12.1	what the royals are up to, worries about family, worries about health, and pretty much
1:17.2	anything else that you might talk about in everyday conversation. And how busy are you? How many
1:21.5	people do you have connecting with you? We have a lot of users. You know, on a monthly basis,
1:27.3	we have hundreds of thousands of users
1:29.0	and forums get very busy and obviously we offer content as well. A lot of health and style
1:36.1	and beauty related content, exercise, things like that. The sort of things that are used to talk
1:41.2	about on the forums all the time. We reflect in the content that we
1:45.0	put together. We've got a great book club as well. Oh, okay. So, and what's your demographics?
1:50.1	What age people mainly go onto Gransnet? Most of our users are sort of 50 plus to, say, mid-70s,
1:57.3	but we have people on either side of that as well. The average age is about 61 or 62.
2:02.3	Okay. And so do people start off on Mum's Net and go across to Grands Net or how do they decide?
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