080 - ”How My Work Was Affected by the Menopause” - Kate Halfpenny & Dr Louise Newson

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr Louise Newson talks to Kate Halfpenny, who was a celebrity stylist and designer for over 20 years. Kate now has a globally successful, British-made bridal brand, Halfpenny London, which she launched in early 2000.

Kate had her first and only child, Sylvester, at 40 and talks to Dr Newson about how her perimenopausal symptoms started a year or two after that. Now 45 and 6 months into her body identical HRT regime from Dr Newson and Newson Health, she has started to feel like the powerhouse she once was, managing to keep a few balls in the air again and not struggling as much to communicate and be the business woman/mother/wife/friend she knew she could be.

Kate Halfpenny's three Take Home Tips and signs that you may have low hormone levels:

If you're experiencing unexplained fatigue even after a good night's sleep then it may be down to your hormones.
Another sign can be a lack of mental clarity, if you are struggling to multitask or concentrate on more than one thing at once.
Loss of libido - this is also a common symptom of the perimenopause and menopause.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You know, Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast.
1:12.6	I'm Dr Louise Newsome, a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the
1:18.6	Menopause charity.
1:19.6	In addition, I run the Newston Health Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon.
1:37.0	So today I'm very excited to have with me in my studio, one of my patients actually, and I don't often bring my patients to my podcast, but Kate Halfpenny is someone I met a few months ago now,
1:44.1	and I'm not very good with names.
1:45.9	A name doesn't mean anything to me and I always ask as part of my consultation what my
1:50.9	patients do for their living. So I was really intrigued when Kate told me what she did and it wasn't
1:55.3	until after she left and I googled her. I realised quite how inspirational, artistic and
2:00.4	incredible she is. So I'm really
2:02.2	honoured that she's come to the podcast today. So welcome, Kate. Thank you for having me.
2:07.2	I'm really flattered that you've asked me to be honest. Oh, so can you just tell people who are
2:11.8	listening who are as ignorant as me and didn't really know about your work and also how you got
2:16.6	into it, because I am the least
2:17.8	artistic person that you'll meet. I'm very scientific, very black and white. So I have so much
2:23.0	awe in people who are artistic. Well, likewise, I am the least academic and scientific person.
2:29.4	You might ever meet also, so I have complete awe of anyone that can study medicine and be super clever. I went to
2:36.1	art college, became obsessed with fashion and designing and everything else that encompasses within
2:43.2	the arts and just loved it and went and studied a degree in fashion and a master's in textiles
2:48.9	and on my degree I specialised in bridalware.
2:52.0	And that's just something that I'd always loved. And I fell in, I got work experience in London
2:57.1	on my year out and worked at Vivian Westwood, soon realized I didn't want to work for another
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