058 - Changing the Perception Around HRT - Davina Mccall & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Dr Louise Newson chats to one of Britain's best loved TV presenters, Davina Mccall. Davina talks openly and honestly about her own menopause experience and how she had no idea that she might start to experience symptoms when she was just 44.
Davina and Louise talk extensively about the perception of HRT in the media, how women are often needlessly scared and ashamed when they hear those three letters and why it's so important that this starts to change. It's essential that women have access to evidence-based menopause information - we all have the right to make informed choices about our own care and treatment.
Davina Mccall's Three Take Home Tips:
- Inform yourself! You have the right to choose the best treatment for you, but make sure you find out all the correct information beforehand.
- Find a supportive community and exercise. Whether it’s a weekly class or an online platform like Own Your Goals – exercise can be great for your mental health.
- Judgement is often a reflection of how we are feeling within ourselves. Every woman has a story and has the right to make their own choices without fear of judgement.
Find Davina on Facebook: @DavinaMccall
Twitter: @ThisIsDavina
Instagram: @davinamccall
Click here to watch Dr Newson and Davina discuss 'All Things Menopause'
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. |
| 0:31.7 | So today I'm absolutely really, really excited to have with me remotely, Davina McColl, |
| 0:37.6 | who I have been stalking and pestering over Instagram for quite a few months now. |
| 0:42.9 | And I'm just honoured that she's agreed to be interviewed for my podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | So welcome, Davina. |
| 0:44.8 | Hi. |
| 0:49.4 | I mean, I think I was stalking you before you were stalking me, I think. |
| 0:55.8 | Oh, that makes me feel better because I have this habit of trying to check out people that I think will be very useful. I'm very open. I don't have a hidden agenda, but my my big agenda, as you know, |
| 1:01.1 | is to help more women globally. And I need women with a voice and you have a voice and a presence |
| 1:07.7 | and a lot of respect from a huge amount of women and men about your work over |
| 1:13.0 | the decades really. So when you started talking a little bit about the menopause, I thought, |
| 1:18.5 | right, I'm going to carry on until I find her and now I've got you. So there's a huge amount |
| 1:25.5 | that needs to be done about the menopause and we could talk for hours, which we're not going to today. |
| 1:30.9 | But I thought before we start talking about your thoughts in a bigger way about the menopause, maybe could I just sort of talk to you? |
| 1:39.1 | If I had asked to interview you maybe 10, 15 years ago about the menopause, would you be thinking the same then as you are now about the menopause? |
| 1:48.3 | Not at all. I mean, 10 years ago, I didn't really know about the menopause. |
| 1:53.9 | I mean, I didn't know what it was, how it would affect me. My mum had died. |
| 1:58.8 | My grandmother doesn't really remember or didn't remember back then |
| 2:04.4 | what was going on. She actually had vascular dementia at that point anyway, so she wouldn't |
| 2:08.9 | have been able to help me. I had one cousin who was the same age as me, but when I started |
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