099 - Kate Muir: I cannot let this happen to other people
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Journalist and menopause activist, Kate Muir joins Dr Louise Newson in this podcast episode to discuss Kate's experience of her own menopause journey and what propelled her to make the Channel 4 documentary, Sex, Myths and Menopause.
Kate shares how she struggled to find the right information about her symptoms and HRT, and after an unsuccessful spell taking compounded bioidentical hormones, she was shocked to realise how little advice was out there and how limited healthcare professionals' knowledge is of up-to-date treatments. Kate thought if she, as an educated woman with an enquiring mind was fumbling in the dark, how much harder is it for other women from all walks of life to get the right menopause care and treatment?
Kate's 3 messages for listeners:
- Body identical HRT saves your life, it saves your work, it saves your relationships, it makes your body work. It's fantastic.
- The research on the long-term benefits of HRT is fascinating. If you're in a family with a history of osteoporosis, heart disease, or dementia, I would be paying very close attention to the evidence on the benefits of taking body identical HRT for your future health.
- Tell your story. Every woman has a unique story to tell of their perimenopause or menopause. We need to talk about it more and more.
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 |
| 0:22.5 | Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:31.6 | So today I have with me someone who I've admired for quite a long time, actually, and |
| 0:36.8 | this is a story that I'm going to share, |
| 0:38.5 | because my husband is a surgeon, as many of you know, but he really would like to have been a film critic |
| 0:44.1 | because he loves watching films. So for the last however many years, I've had this name of |
| 0:49.9 | Kate Muir branded in front of me with film reviews. And then not that long ago, probably about 80 months ago, |
| 0:56.3 | I had somebody who came to sit in my clinic, |
| 0:59.1 | who also had the name, Kate Muir, |
| 1:00.8 | but I'm a bit dyslexic almost with names. |
| 1:03.0 | So names don't mean anything. |
| 1:04.2 | And as part of my history taking, I said to this lady, |
| 1:07.2 | what's your job? |
| 1:08.1 | And she said, oh, I write a bit and I review films. I went, |
| 1:11.3 | oh, great. And we carried on and we had a conversation about her hormones and her menopause. |
| 1:17.1 | And then she left and I suddenly thought, oh my goodness, that is the Kate Muir. And because of |
| 1:22.8 | confidentiality, I couldn't tell anyone, not even my husband. So it was really lovely that I've managed to now |
| 1:28.9 | become very good friends with Kate and I can now, in fact, my husband's met her as well. So welcome |
| 1:34.3 | Kate. Thanks ever so much for coming today. Thank you for having me on, Louise. And I just want to say |
| 1:39.7 | you have changed my life in all sorts of unexpected ways. Yeah, so let's talk about when we first met |
| 1:46.7 | and it was quite good actually, so I wasn't starstruck with you because I didn't realize who you were. |
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