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 on the studio I've got with me, Dr. Saj Rajpar, who is an amazing dermatologist and

also a very good friend and someone I admire from afar because his

knowledge is encyclopedic about the skin which some people might think oh well it's only the

skin but actually as you'll hear the skin is incredibly important so thanks Saj for giving up some

more of your time to talk to me today it's a pleasure to be here Louise and thanks for the invitation so we're going to talk to me today. It's a pleasure to be here, Louise, and thanks for the invitation.

So we're going to talk today about something called Rosacea. And actually, you don't know this,

because I haven't told you before, my grandfather had really bad rosacea. And he had a rhinofimer.

So his nose was quite, you know, and he had very red skin. And, you know, I only knew him like that. So that was

him. I used to call him Pappy, my grandfather, and that was just really close to him. He

looked after my dad died and that was just the way he was, didn't think anything different

until I actually saw a photo when he was married and his nose was different. His features

were different and I was too

embarrassed because I was young to say anything. And retrospectively, like most things, you learn,

don't you? And I thought, oh, what a shame. I bet he never had any treatment. And I bet it affected

his self-confidence and everything else. He was a real gentle man actually, lovely, lovely man,

very respectful. But it must

have affected him. But when I knew him, we didn't talk about anything embarrassing at all,

and let alone any skin condition. So what is rosacea, Sajat? Because it's common, isn't it?

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