180 - Improving menopause care in Hong Kong with Dr Laurena Law

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Dr Laurena Law is a general practitioner working in Hong Kong who has a special interest in nutrition and lifestyle medicine to improve healthy aging and prevent chronic illness. When Laurena gained personal experience of perimenopause and saw the impact it was having on her own life, she decided to learn more about hormone health and evidence-based treatments for the menopause so she could help herself and her patients. In this episode, Louise and Laurena discuss cultural differences and similarities between British and Chinese approaches to menopause from both an individual and healthcare perspective. Laurena emphasises the importance of educating women so they know how to recognise their perimenopause or menopause and to empower them to make their own health needs a priority. She educates healthcare professionals in Hong Kong and further afield to ask women the right questions in consultations and to know how to prescribe body identical HRT. Dr Laurena’s three tips for women: Complete a menopause symptom questionnaire and repeat it every few months. This can form the basis of a conversation with your healthcare provider Find a healthcare provider that is educated and updated in menopause care Find a support group of women also going through the menopause to talk about the problems and challenges you’re going through – you’re not alone.

Transcript

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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.
0:45.8	So today I'm going to introduce to you someone called Lorena who I've recently reached out to
0:51.6	and a lot of my work is thinking about women who I'm never going
0:55.0	to help through my clinic, but my clinic enables me to reach other people with the education
0:59.8	work that I do, both for women, but and also for men, of course, but also for healthcare
1:05.1	professionals. So I'm really keen to talk to you today and hear about sort of you and your journey and who you are and where you are as well because, you know, the menopause is a global problem.
1:17.7	There's 1.2 billion menopoles or women, but we're here to stay. We want to be looked after. We want to be listened to and we want to be treated.
1:25.0	And I think it's outrageous, actually, that women get
1:28.5	different treatment depending on where they are and where they live, because most other
1:32.8	conditions, people can access good quality, evidence-based care. So welcome to the podcast.
1:39.4	Thank you so much. Thank you, Louise. I'm so happy to be on this podcast and I have been a follower
1:45.3	for just recently in the last 12 months and I'm actually here in Hong Kong. So I work here as a GP
1:52.9	in my own solo practice and I've been in Hong Kong since 2002. Originally I grew up in Hong Kong, but I did my medical education in Australia.
2:04.0	So I was having basically experiences in both the sort of Western culture, but also in my
2:11.7	own Chinese culture.
2:13.6	So I speak both Chinese and English, although I have to admit that I didn't really quite go to a Chinese school.
2:22.1	I went to an international school while I grew up here.
2:25.0	So I came back to Hong Kong and in 2002, I remember there was an article in the newspaper and the media reporting some of the risks of HRT.
2:36.0	And that was really just, that was it.
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