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 today I'm very, very excited actually to introduce to you someone that I've been stalking

from afar without him realising for quite a few years.

Someone called Dr Walter Rocker who works out of the Mayo Clinic in Minotota, I first heard him lecture a few years ago

at a conference about what happens when younger women have their ovaries removed and the changes

that occur, especially the health risks that occur.

And everything he lectured on made sense.

And I thought, how do I get hold of this person?

So I've been reading a lot of information and emailing him from afar.

And then I had the privilege of meeting him in real life at the International Menopause Society in Lisbon last year in 2022.

And now he's here that I can speak to in my studio. So thanks ever so much, Walter, for joining me today.

You're welcome. It's a pleasure.

So tell me about your work and your background and why you do what you do if you don't mind.

Well, that can be a long question, but I'll try to keep it the focus if we can.

I, by training, I'm a neurologist, so a brain specialist, but I also spend quite some time

in learning research methods.

So how can you use data to answer questions in medicine?

You know, like in medicine, we are dealing with a lot of uncertainties, a lot of things that

are not clear or that are not resolved. And then we progress by creating evidence or data or pieces of knowledge on which we can then build

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