201 - More than skin deep: menopause, skin and HRT doses with Dr Andrew Weber

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Dr Andrew Weber is Medical Director of the Bodyvie Medi-Clinic in London and has more than 40 years of experience as a GP and 25 years specialising in advanced medical aesthetics and cosmetic procedures. In this episode, Dr Weber and Dr Louise Newson discuss the impact of the perimenopause and menopause on the skin and throughout the body, the importance of hormones and benefits of HRT, and why it is crucial healthcare professionals listen to their patients. The episode also covers how HRT has advanced and the importance of individualising treatment to find the right dose – Dr Weber likens HRT to buying a bespoke, made to measure Savile Row suit, rather than an off-the-peg outfit. For more about Dr Andrew Weber and the Bodyvie Medi-Clinic visit bodyvie.com Follow Dr Andrew Weber on Twitter at @drandrewweber

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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. Today in the studio, I have someone with me who I've never met face-to-face,
0:50.2	like a lot of people I seem to meet now, But he's another doctor who's got actually far more
0:55.7	experience than me. And I reached out to him actually and spoke to him, I think, on New Year's Eve
1:01.3	over some posting that he did on our advice and guidance platform. And we started to talk. And now I've
1:07.9	hoiked him into the studio to talk even more. So his name's Dr. Andrew
1:12.2	Weber and he's a GP and has lots of experience in general practice but also in menopause as
1:18.8	well. So thanks for coming to talk to me today, Andrew. It's my pleasure. So we started a conversation
1:25.1	about dosing actually of hormones, didn't we? But before we get
1:29.3	on to HRT, menopause, how we can individualise treatment, do you mind just telling me a bit about
1:35.5	your background? As you said, I'm a GP. I have now retired after 33 years as a GP principal
1:44.0	from the NHS. However, I had contact early on with
1:49.4	women's services, even when I was on my VTS. So I ended up running a once weekly well-woman stroke
1:58.7	family planning clinic for about five years, which I finally gave up
2:02.8	because general practice was taking over my time. I've drifted in and out of other bits and pieces
2:09.0	with clinical assistantship in diabetology, which led on to being an associate specialist in erectile dysfunction, which actually makes
2:20.5	general practice much more interesting. I have an FP cert, so I still have my lock for IUT,
2:28.4	which is coming very useful now that we've got engaged much more with menopause management.
2:35.8	So that's my background.
2:37.6	Within general practice, I think retrospectively, we're actually pretty poor at managing menopause
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