124 - Menopause specialists advocating for women of colour with Dr Nneka Nwokolo and Dr Martina Toby

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dr Nneka Nwokolo and Dr Martina Toby are both consultant physicians in sexual health and HIV medicine, and together they have joined forces to help educate and advocate for women of colour experiencing perimenopause and menopause. In this episode, the experts share what prompted them to set up the ‘Shades of Menopause’ Instagram group and the benefits of using social media to support women of colour. Together with Dr Louise Newson, they discuss some of the socioeconomic and cultural factors, as well as gender inequalities that affect a woman’s experience of healthcare, and the unfortunate lack of research around use of HRT in women of colour. Nneka and Martina’s three tips to women of colour: Do your own research and ask other women about their experience See your GP for help. Ask who is the best person to see at your practice. Go equipped with knowledge already, and you will get a much better outcome. You are not alone, millions of women like you are going through it. If you feel you can’t speak up, find a friend who is willing to do it for you. Your voice matters and needs to be heard. Follow the podcast guests on Instagram @shadesofmenopause

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause.
0:45.8	So today on this week's podcast, I've actually got two guests rather than my usual one,
0:50.2	which is doubly as exciting.
0:51.8	So I have Dr. Martina Toby, who is a GP and sexual health consultant,
0:56.4	who's got a special interest in the menopause. And for the second time, actually, she's been a
1:01.1	guest before, Dr. Neckinakola, who is a sexual health consultant, but also an HIV consultant,
1:07.7	who also specialises in the menopause. So welcome both of you to the podcast this
1:12.9	week. Thank you very much. So you've got a really interesting story, a really interesting connection
1:18.3	and you're doing some great work together. So could you maybe, Martino, just explain a bit about
1:23.1	the work that you're doing together and also why you're interested in the menopause, sexual health
1:27.6	covers so much, but why are you interested in the menopause specifically?
1:31.3	Sure, so just a bit of background. Neck and I work together as sexual health and HIV consultants
1:36.2	of health. We worked on quite a few projects there and got along really well. And when I left
1:41.2	to do GP training, I spoke to NeckerA and we were talking about menopause.
1:45.2	And she was telling me that she was doing menopause training and how exciting it was,
1:48.9	which got me really excited.
1:50.9	And I started to do the menopause training as well at guys in St. Thomas's.
1:54.9	And to me, it was one of the most rewarding parts of medicine that I've come across because,
2:00.3	you know, the women come in,
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