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.

Today on the podcast I'm very excited to introduce to you Peter Greenhouse, who I've known for a few years actually,

first met at a menopause society meeting

and we're very inspired by his enthusiasm and determination to educate people.

In similar ways to me, really, we have very similar ways of thinking.

So welcome, Peter.

Thanks for coming today.

Hi.

It's a delight to be here.

I hope we can get the relevant amount of information across in plain English and see what feedback we get.

Sue, you're similar but different to me. You're similar in that you're interested in hormones,

but we've got different backgrounds actually in different training, haven't we?

Very different, yeah. Well, I train in both what I might call veneeriology and gynaecology. I did the gap between the two.

And I was the first person to do integrated sexual health care in the UK. And I saw the need for it as a medical student nearly 50 years ago. But I finally got round to doing it when I got my consultant post because I trained between the two subjects. But at that time, it's

interesting at that time, certainly for as a gyne registrar, the first thing about menopause,

and I'd always struggle a bit understanding contraception and how to do it. Because as a bloke,

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