Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsome. I'm a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-Pon-Avon.

I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.

Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause

and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,

and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.

This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,

which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.

So today on the podcast, I've got someone with me who's from America. I've had a few people

from America. And this is someone who I've been watching from afar really inspired by what she

does and she's a well-known journalist over in America and getting known over here more as well.

So her name is Tam's infidel and she's got a bit of her own story but she's a person with a

mission like a lot of us are to really help as many people as possible

who will listen and engage and move things forward for women. So welcome today to the studio.

Thanks for having me. No, it's really exciting. So tell me a bit about sort of you,

why you're in this space and what's been going on. Yeah, it's funny. I've had that question recently because I

didn't ever plan to get into this space. I've been a journalist for a long time over 20 years

here in the U.S. I've written a number of books. I wrote them on relationships and dating because I was

in that space for a little while, but mostly I've been a journalist, you know journalist covering news of the day, covering stories that are happening

here at home or globally.

And it was a few years ago that I found myself on the bathroom floor in the middle of a

hot flash with heart populations, unlike anything I've ever experienced before and not

knowing what it was.

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