202 - What does the future hold for menopause and HRT? With menopause activist Kate Muir

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Making a welcome return to the podcast is menopause activist, author and documentary maker Kate Muir. Kate is the author of Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (but were too afraid to ask) and the producer behind Davina McCall’s two award-winning menopause documentaries; her third documentary, investigating the contraceptive pill, is currently in production. This week, after more than 200 episodes of the Dr Louise Newson Podcast, Kate is the one asking the questions. She asks Dr Louise about her hopes for HRT and menopause care over the next decade, and about the importance of hormones for healthy ageing and prevention of future disease. They also discuss barriers to accessing HRT, the so-called natural approach to the menopause and tackle claims the menopause is being over-medicalised. And in place of the usual top three tips, Dr Louise shares the four things in her handbag that she can’t live without. For more about Kate visit her website Follow Kate on Twitter @muirkate and Instagram @muirka Kate Muir photo credit: Suki Dhanda

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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 on the podcast I've got with me somebody who has been on the podcast
0:49.7	before and hopefully a name that you'll all know, Kate Muir, who is the most amazing now producer,
0:57.8	didn't used to be, and she's produced the two Davina documentaries about HRT and the menopause,
1:04.8	and now she's working on a contraceptive pill one, which I'm going to get her to come back,
1:09.4	actually, and talk about once it's out later this year. But Kate and I met some of you might realize a little while
1:16.5	ago and she actually became a patient and I'm not breaking confidentiality because she's
1:22.5	shared the story before. And actually she's a very straightforward patient. It wasn't straightforward
1:27.4	her story, but I knew that she needed a very straightforward patient. It wasn't straightforward her
1:27.9	story, but I knew that she needed the right dose and type of hormones. So once I did her
1:33.7	consultation, we started talking about the injustice to women and the sheer horror of what's
1:40.1	happened over the last 20 years or so with women not being allowed to have the right
1:44.5	information to make the right decision. And she has now become a very vehement campaigner for
1:51.3	the right education, the right treatment for women and has written an incredible book, as well as
1:57.9	read probably nearly as many references and articles and papers and scientific
2:03.4	journals that I have, which is no mean feat. So Kate, I asked to do the podcast today and she
2:11.0	decided to spin it on its head a bit so she can explain more what we're going to do over the
2:15.7	next half an hour or so. So go for it, Kate.
2:18.0	Well, I decided Louise that you've done over 200 podcasts and you're always asking the questions.
2:25.1	And I actually have a lot of questions to ask you. And often you're sitting there agreeing with
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