156 - Educating women, improving access to treatment and influencing those in power with Dr Sharon Malone

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dr Sharon Malone is an eminent American physician who has worked as an obstetrician and gynaecologist for over 30 years in Washington DC. After 15 years of working mostly as an obstetrician, Sharon changed to specialise in menopause care around the time of her own perimenopause. She is passionate about educating women to understand their own hormone journey and empower them with evidence based information about hormone treatments. The experts discuss the challenges of influencing and persuading medical colleagues on the benefits of hormone replacement, the importance of patient choice and agency, and the lack of menopause research and need for government funding. Dr Malone’s advice to women: Find your community of women who will support you and understand what you’re going through Be active, keep exercising regularly Maintain a healthy diet and eating habits; processed foods negatively affect so many aspects of your health To read or listen to Dr Malone’s Washington Post op ed, visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/28/menopause-hormone-therapy-nih-went-wrong/ Dr Malone is the Chief Medical Officer at US based menopause company Alloy, to find out more visit www.myalloy.com

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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.
0:45.6	So today on the podcast, I'm really excited, delighted and thrilled, actually, to introduce to you
0:51.6	a very eminent doctor who I've recently become introduced to
0:55.2	called Sharon Malone, and she's across the waters in America in Washington. So thanks ever so much,
1:02.0	Sharon, for joining me today. Thank you for having me. I really appreciate being here.
1:06.8	So actually, I first heard a podcast that you were on, it must have been, about 18 months ago.
1:13.2	And you were just talking a lot of sense, actually.
1:16.1	You were talking to someone I have even more admiration to, no disrespect to you.
1:21.4	So Michelle Obama, who is, you know, obviously the most incredible person.
1:26.0	And she was talking about the menopause,
1:28.2	which actually is a brave thing for anyone to talk about their own experience, but for someone as
1:33.1	important as her to be so open, actually really resonated with a lot of people and the response
1:39.9	was huge. And I listened to you talk and I thought, wow, this lady has so much sense.
1:44.8	You know, she's talking from evidence and also from a place of authority and understanding.
1:51.1	And then we were introduced actually through Kate Muir, who has been the producer of the
1:56.1	Channel 4 documentary over here, who I've known for a few years now. And she has been really amazing,
2:02.5	actually. She's a journalist, but she's taken on board all the information and more importantly
2:07.5	the misinformation about the menopause. And I know she came on a US trip and met you,
2:12.5	didn't she recently? She did. We had a three-hour conversation. I know. She came back and she said to me, Louise, you've got to meet Sharon. So we've had a little chats before and I think it's a start of hopefully a really great partnership, friendship, whatever. There's lots we need to do. So before we talk in about what you'll want to do now, Sharon, could you just talk a bit about sort of how you got into doing
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