174 - World Menopause Day Special with Dr Louise Newson

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On World Menopause Day, Dr Louise Newson has recorded this special edition of her podcast on her own. She describes her medical career to date and her reasons for doing what she is doing. She discusses her interest as an undergraduate and postgraduate and also talks about her lack of menopause training during this time. Louise has a medical degree and also a degree in pathology which is even more relevant when thinking about the menopause as a systemic condition in which the low hormones, especially estradiol, affect all the cells and organs in the body. During this podcast she talks openly about her reasons for setting up a private menopause clinic and how the clinic has enabled her to finance the free balance menopause app and also the free Confidence in the Menopause education programme for healthcare professionals. She clearly states this is the beginning of her journey and she has much more work to do. It will be very interesting to watch and see how the next year unfolds for menopausal women. Her three take-home tips are Work as a team - communicate with others and share your knowledge and experience Ensure information you receive is evidence based - there is plenty of really good quality information both on the free balance app and the balance-menopause.com website Be positive – working together to make a change will enable women to have better future health

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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. So today is World Menopause Day. It's the 18th of October 2020. And I thought I'd
0:52.2	do something different today on my podcast. I would talk myself,
0:57.0	so you're just going to listen to me for the next 20 minutes or so. And I thought I would just
1:02.4	talk about why I'm doing, what I'm doing, and also a bit about me. Because my profile's
1:09.4	increased, which is good because it means that I'm reaching more women.
1:14.0	But actually, there's also a lot of negativity about my work too. So I thought I would just come
1:18.7	clean, say all, bear all, and just let you know why I'm trying to do what I'm doing.
1:25.5	So some of you might have heard about me before and about my
1:29.2	background, but I'll just go back to the basics and then just expand and tell you about myself.
1:35.6	So I live near Stratfupon-Avon, which is where my clinic is in the UK. And I've got a
1:42.4	background of being a hospital physician. I actually started at medical
1:46.9	school where I met my husband in the first week and not just did a medical degree. I took a year
1:53.8	out and did a pathology and immunology degree, which means that you just do a three-year degree in a
1:59.3	year. And it was a great privilege to
2:01.3	to be able to do this. And this made me further my knowledge and understanding of basic human
2:06.2	function, but also about pathology, which is the study of disease, and how crucial it is for our
2:12.1	bodies and systems to work in tune with each other. We also did some immunology around that time, which is the
2:18.7	study of our immune function, which are the cells that fight diseases. And then made me realize
2:24.9	how important our immune system is not just for fighting infections, but diseases as well,
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