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'm very, very excited and delighted to introduce to you, Regala,

who I've known for a little while and actually seen and watched

her become even a better version of herself. So she's here in the podcast studio today. So welcome.

Thanks so much for joining me. Thank you, Louise. And thank you for inviting me on to the podcast today.

Oh, so I was trying to work out how long I've known you for and it's, I don't know,

it feels like about a year. Would that be fair enough, do you think? I think it's over a year.

Okay. And so tell me, if you don't mind, just tell me a bit about why we connected or what was

going on at the time when you reached out to me. Well, I think what had happened was I started bleeding nine months after my period had stopped.

And I was very, very concerned.

And my son actually knew you and got us in contact.

And then we had a conversation on the phone, which was reassuring. You know, you sent me off

to have tests. And it was all very quick, but for me, really important, because I can be someone

that can get quite anxious around things that I don't know what's going on in my body. So yeah,

that's how we met. Yeah. And you're not alone. I mean, we all want to be healthy.

We all want to be well. And when something doesn't have an especially actually bleeding can really

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