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 welcome to this podcast. Today I'm going to introduce to you another Louise, actually, Dr. Louise

Oliver, who's a GP with an interest in women's house. But she's also,

which is the really interesting bit I think, she's a functional breathing practitioner and a therapeutic

life coach. So welcome Louise today. Thank you. So you reached out to me through somebody we both

know and I've, many of you you know do quite a lot of yoga

and part of yoga is breath work actually it's really important to well to get the best re-eager

practice to coordinate movements with breath and breath is one of the few things that we have

control of there's lots in our life we have no control of

and there's lots of things in life we can choose to do or not do, but breathing is something we all

do but we actually have control over it. So I've been fascinated with breathwork for quite a long

time and actually my oldest daughter is at trombonist who's very into breathwork.

So when you reached out to me, I thought, yes, this is ticking lots of boxes.

And, you know, holistic care is really important for any field of medicine,

but especially menopause as well.

So for you to have an interest in women's health and breathing, it's just great. So tell me a bit about why you're doing

what you're doing, Louise. Have you always been a GP? Yeah, so I've been a GP now for over 20 years,

right from when I trained, I had an interest in women's health and I've been involved with

contraceptive work, so fitting coils and implants throughout that time.

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