098 - Davina McCall: Making a menopause documentary left me in tears

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Davina McCall makes a welcomed return appearance to the Newson Health podcast to discuss what she has learnt from making Channel 4's taboo-smashing documentary, 'Sex, Myths and Menopause'. Dr Newson and Davina discuss a broad range of topics such as the role of estrogen in our bodies, types of HRT, the huge need for more research, and the gaps in menopause care across the country.

If you listen to this episode when first released, please note Davina's documentary airs on Channel 4 on Wednesday 12th May at 9pm.

Davina's 3 reasons to watch her documentary:

Someone you love, someone you know, or someone you work with will be going through what this programme is about. You may end up with a much greater understanding of that person
If you're pro-women, in any way, there are ways you can get out there and make a noise for positive change.
You will be informed about something that half the nation will go through. Everybody should know about it

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newson, a GP and menopause
0:15.8	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.
0:31.1	So today I'm delighted and excited because I have Davina back on the podcast.
0:35.9	She's already been and she's here again. So hi, Davina.
0:38.8	I literally love coming on here. You're like my fountain of knowledge. I've saved up some questions for you.
0:45.2	And I know I'm the one that reasons that I've invited about, I've
0:54.6	obviously, because I want to talk to you, but because there's this great channel for
0:58.8	documentary that, well, we're pre-recording this, when we put it out, hopefully it will be out.
1:04.4	And it's the most amazing program, and it's going to really resonate with so many people and we've been connected for
1:13.1	well but Kate Muir who has written and produced the program I have been talking to for the
1:18.2	last 18 months or so is phenomenal she really is incredible what she has done in an hour but also
1:26.5	what you do in the programme is incredible.
1:29.0	Just the feeling that you have, the empathy, the understanding.
1:32.5	It's just fantastic.
1:34.0	So if any of you are listening, I haven't watched it, you can watch it through Channel
1:37.9	4.
1:38.2	So I just wanted to talk to you to me about how you felt, because the programme you didn't know anything about,
1:46.0	you were launched in, you talked about, so obviously I know you're really passionate,
1:50.0	really passionate, which is fantastic about helping as many women as possible.
1:53.9	But I just wanted to hear from you what you learned with the programme and how you feel
1:58.9	differently since going through and doing what you've done?
2:02.3	I think firstly, through the program, I thought about you a lot because I would often, and I know
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