172 - Learning to make empowered choices after cancer with Dani Binnington

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Dani Binnington was diagnosed with breast cancer as a young mum at 33. For the next few years her life did not feel under her own control amidst countless medical appointments, treatments and surgeries. After discovering she carried the genetic BRCA1 mutation, Dani chose to have a double mastectomy and at 39 she opted to have both her ovaries removed as several family members had died from ovarian cancer. Previously a jewellery designer, Dani then embarked on a change of direction towards yoga and healthy living, and she now offers programmes for women on menopause after cancer. Dani is on a mission to empower women to learn about their choices, seek out specialist menopause care and her goal is for every women to have the conversations with healthcare professionals that they deserve. Dani’s tips for women after cancer: Talk about it with the right group of people that understand what you’re going through Make time for yourself to check and understand your symptoms Continue conversations with your healthcare team and ask for specialist menopause care Learn all your treatment options, including hormonal and non-hormonal treatments, complementary therapies, lifestyle management, and how to avoid triggers. Don’t sit back, show up for yourself and be empowered. Be active in your own recovery. Visit Dani’s website at www.healthywholeme.com And follow her on social media at: www.instagram.com/healthywholeme/ www.facebook.com/healthywholeme The Menopause And Cancer podcast: Listen here on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-menopause-and-cancer-podcast/id1631842514 Listen here on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3OhAwupemqzdI6sCXCZLSX?si=DsriNnCXSIee6i10Cd4kww

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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
0:22.0	Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance. On the podcast, I will be
0:31.8	joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause.
0:46.1	Today on the podcast, I'm very delighted to introduce to you, Danny Billington, who some of you
0:52.5	might have seen or heard before. She's doing
0:55.4	some incredible work, really allowing women to make more choices and also to learn more,
1:02.1	actually, about the menopause, the perimenopause, especially for women who've had breast
1:05.9	cancer. So welcome, Danny. Thank you for having me, Louise. Oh, it's great. So I first met you, I don't
1:13.2	know how long ago, maybe a couple of years or so ago. And I remember looking at your website,
1:16.7	which is so lovely and calm and really inspirational actually, and thinking, wow, you just look
1:22.4	the picture of health because I know you do look after yourself. And it is really important that
1:26.4	we all look after ourselves. And you're very holistic in the way you look after yourselves which indeed we all should be
1:32.4	looking at your diet, looking at exercise and looking at your hormones as well but things haven't
1:38.1	always been quite so healthy I know that and not quite so easy so are you able to just talk
1:43.1	us a bit about your journey, if you like,
1:45.4	and why you're doing what you're doing? Yeah, of course. So I think I kind of like ended up
1:51.4	almost in this situation when I thought my journey with breast cancer would come to an end.
1:57.0	And when I thought, this is sort of the last bit in terms of my treatment, a whole new other chapter had opened up, and that was my early menopause.
2:05.7	And I had really good care, Louise.
2:08.0	It was fantastic.
2:08.9	All my care was under the NHS.
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