192 - Freediving at 50 with world record holder Nina McGowan

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Nina McGowan is a visual artist and Bikram yoga practitioner from Ireland who discovered freediving while on holiday in Egypt when she was in her mid-forties. Shortly after she turned 50, Nina secured a world record dive of 43 metres that involved holding her breath for 2 minutes and ten seconds. In this episode, Nina explains how her yoga practice helps her free diving and she outlines the benefits of eating well, sleeping well and clearing your mind to focus on your breath. Nina also shares some of her own personal experience with her hormone journey and seeking out the right support. Nina’s three priorities for a positive lifestyle change: Prioritise your sleep and protect that space Make any diet changes slowly and one at a time Have faith in yourself to take a step into the unknown and a bridge will appear across the chasm. Follow Nina on Instagram

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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 in the studio, I've got someone who I've not met in real life before,
0:49.7	like many of my guests, actually, but she's called Nina McGowan and she reached out to me with the
0:55.1	most incredible story actually and she's very kindly agreed to tell her story. So she's a visual
1:02.5	artist, but more recently she's also a free diver, but she's not just a free diver. She's got four
1:09.2	national records for Ireland and she's got world record actually in No just a free diver. She's got four national records for Ireland,
1:11.4	and she's got world record, actually, in No Finns Free Diving.
1:15.5	So welcome, Nina, today, to talk about you and what you've been getting up to.
1:20.1	Thanks, Dr. Louise. Thanks for having me on.
1:22.1	No, it's great.
1:22.8	So tell me a bit about you.
1:24.8	I've introduced you as a visual artist,
1:26.7	but that doesn't really describe
1:27.7	what you do and what your talents are. So do you mind talking a bit about your background?
1:32.8	And then if you don't mind talking a little bit about your menopause, because obviously
1:36.2	it's a menopause podcast, you can't not talk about menopause. And then you'll talk a bit more
1:40.4	about your absolute passion of free diving. Yeah, sure. So, yeah, I'm Irish, a group in
1:47.8	Dublin, group by the sea, had a very kind of, I guess, regular 20s and 30s interspersed, I suppose,
1:55.1	with the usual things, going out drinking with buddies. And I really enjoyed, I guess, the dance
2:00.7	scene in the early 90s
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