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. So today on the podcast I've got with me to hear Mahmoud, who I've recently met

and I love talking to him because he's very respectful about the work I do so it's always

nice to get praise but he's actually on a mission I'm on a mission to improve the global health

and well-being of all women and he's actually bigger than me because he wants to improve the health

of everybody by improving their bone health which is incredibly important important, yet very, very, very neglected.

So welcome to the podcast today.

Thank you. Thank you very much. It's a privilege to be with you and understand all the stuff

that you're doing as well. Yeah, so as many of you know who's listening, I didn't set up my career

to do menopause. In fact, I wanted to do cancer medicine, oncology, and I did my hospital exams.

And when I was in hospital, it was probably one of the first times I had ordered a dexas scan, a bone density scan, and thought about osteoporosis, because it was glossed over a bit when I was at medical school. I did a pathology degree and we learned more about

bone structure and pathophysiology then. And then I got a dexascan report and it was really

quite hard to read. There were lots of numbers and there were minuses and there were different scores.

And I honestly felt really embarrassed. I was just looking for the summary at the end to tell me what to do.

And over the years as a GP, I have ordered a lot of dexter scans.

And I've been really interested in it, but also very interested in evidence behind it, but guidelines as well.

Because a lot of resources are very limited in the NHS, obviously, and understandably.

But a lot of times we can't

order an investigation until someone's had a fracture. And I'm very keen on preventative medicine.

So there's lots and lots of lots to unpick and osteoporosis is incredibly common. So let me just

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