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.

On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based

information and advice about both the perimenopause and the

menopause. Today on this week's podcast, I'm really delighted to reintroduce to you, Dr. Saj Rajpah,

who is a very well-recognised and highly esteemed dermatologist,

who I work very closely with and always enjoy talking to him and his podcasts and events

that we do together always have phenomenal feedback. So I hope you're going to enjoy this one as

well. So welcome, Saj. Thank you very much, Louise. It's great to be back on.

So we were recently talking. We did a balanced live event together with a lady who'd noticed some

skin changes when she was going through her menopause. So I wanted to bring you on today to talk about

skin changes because they are so common and what we can do about it.

And we also want to talk about some of the marketing of some products that are sort of coming out,

thick and fast, actually, which really scare us. And just before we start, I really want to sort

of declare our conflicts which we don't have. We do no paid work with any pharmaceutical company,

and we certainly don't endorse any products that are related to the menopause, do we?

No, no, absolutely not.

So we have no hidden agenda here, is what I'm trying to say.

All we're trying to do is educate and empower as many people as possible.

Absolutely, and share our points of view. Yeah. So skin is

interesting because a lot of people just see it as a covering for the body, which of course it is.

If we didn't have skin, we would look quite horrendous because all our muscles would be exposed

and our blood supply and everything else. It's very important, but it's actually a very

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