050 - Empowering Women to Receive the Right Menopause Advice - Liz Earle MBE & Dr Louise Newson

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In the 50th episode of the Newson Health podcast series, Dr Louise Newson chats to Liz Earle MBE about how they first met and the work they have done together. Liz is very open and candid about her own menopause experience and admits how little she knew about the perimenopause and menopause before meeting Dr Newson. She is now a great advocate for women receiving evidence-based menopause advice and treatment. Liz and Dr Newson also discuss ways that women can become more empowered and receive the right advice and treatment. Liz works tirelessly to help women to improve their knowledge and is always campaigning for improved menopause care in the future.

Liz Earle's Three Take Home Tips:

Knowledge is power! Take a look on menopausedoctor.co.uk and if you are experiencing menopausal symptoms then fill out the Menopause Symptom Questionnaire - you can then print it off and take it to your GP.
Go to your appointment armed with knowledge, be secure in that knowledge and understand that you may even know more than your GP about the menopause.
Don't be afraid to ask for a second or even third opinion. It's your body and your life, don't give up if you don't get the right help straight away.

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.
0:31.4	So today I'm very excited and delighted to have with me remotely, Liz Earle, who I have known for a few years. And I'm just so excited to have you here today, Liz. So thanks for
0:37.3	joining me. It's such a pleasure. It's so great to have you here today, Liz. So thanks for joining me.
0:38.4	It's such a pleasure. It's so great to connect even if we can't be in the same room.
0:43.4	Yeah. So as a lot of you know, I've done, I think, three podcasts with you, Liz, which has been a real
0:48.2	honor and delight. And so it's lovely to have our roles reversed. But I've just wanted to
0:52.9	talk really about how we first met, because
0:55.7	as some of you who are listening know, as well as being a doctor for many years, I've also done
1:00.1	a lot of medical writing. And I was approached to look at a book that I think your mother had
1:07.0	written initially, hadn't she? Yeah, she'd certainly help me with it. This was a really old book.
1:12.5	I had a little series of quick guides, they were called, and I did about 24 of them.
1:17.8	Gosh, it must be 20 years or so ago.
1:20.5	And one of them was on menopause.
1:23.1	And to be honest, you know, back then, I was in my 30s and it was something that for me was dim and
1:28.4	distant future. So I asked my mum to help me because she was going through it. And it was the
1:34.5	time of the Women's Health Initiative studies and everything was, you know, very anti-HRT and a lot of
1:40.7	chat about breast cancer, et cetera. So she helped me with the research. And it was only a quick little guide.
1:45.4	So, you know, we published it and it was fine.
1:48.0	And then about, well, I guess 20 years later, a few years ago, I was asked by my publisher
1:54.0	to rework all my little books and to put them out as e-guides, so e-books.
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