Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast.

I'm Dr. Louise Newsom, a GP and menopause specialist,

and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Hello, today with me I have Lindsay Beveridge, who is a nutritional therapist, who was actually introduced to me by Zoe Hudson, who's a doctor, some of you might know, who works in our

Northwest Clinic in the Northwest of England. So welcome, Lindsay.

Thanks very much. Thanks very much for having me.

Oh, thank you. No, it's great to have you here. So what I wanted to do

before we start talking about your work that you do now is if you could just tell

us a bit about you and your training and how you've got to where you are now, if that's okay.

Yep, that's fine. I've changed career midlife. Before that I had my own conference and training

business for several years and before that I was in publishing, whatever. So it's been a big

change of career for me. And the reason why I got into studying nutritional therapy was

because I got very, very ill at one point,

and that was mainly due to alcohol, alcohol abuse, really,

and I found myself in a terrible mess.

My gut health was terrible, my mental health was terrible, my hormones were all over the place.

I'd lost a lot of muscle function, just generally, really physically and mentally in a terrible place. And I realized that I had

to stop drinking, otherwise it was going to kill me. At that point, I was physically and

psychologically addicted. And I also decided that if I was going to stop drinking,

I wanted to make sure that the rest, you know, the time that I had left, I was going to be

as healthy as possible. So I started reading up about how to sort out my gut health and

my mental health and all of that. And then I thought what I'm reading up so much, I may as well study it.

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