Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newsome, a GP and menopause specialist,

and I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity. In addition, I run the Newston Health Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Today I'm really excited to have with me, Anise Mukerjee, who is a consultant endocrinologist in Manchester, the city very close to my

heart because it's where I trained. So welcome, Anise. Thanks for coming today. And thank you so much

for having me. You've got a fantastic platform here and I'm really happy to be part of it.

Oh, thank you. So we connected fairly recently because we've got some mutual

friends and I'm sure we were both together in the medical school in Manchester just in different

years, but we probably did cross each other at some stage then. So we're both really interested

in the menopause and hormones because I'm a GP, obviously, not an endocrinologist, and I'm very

interested in all hormones, but especially estrogen and also testosterone and progesterone in

women. And as you know, I run a menopause clinic and see a lot of menopause or women,

but a lot of women have symptoms related to their menopause, perimenopause,

and it's very hard sometimes to know whether it's related to their sex hormones or a lot of

women are worried it's their thyroid or their stress or their cortisol and there's so many

hormones. So before we start talking about the menopause specifically,

could you just sort of simplify a bit about what an endocrinologist is and does and the different

types of hormones we have in our body, if that's okay? Yeah. So, well, yeah, I'm an endocrinologist

and I actually specialised an endocrinology 25 years ago.

So that was when I first started my specialty training in endocrinology after I'd graduated.

It fascinated me because I just find hormones very interesting.

We've got hormones circulating all over our body.

So it kind of links every bit of the body together.

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