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.

On this week's podcast, I'm delighted to introduce to you someone else from America, who is a

urologist, like my husband, but not like my husband, because she's female.

And so I've got with me, Dr. Kelly Casperson, who is a urologist who specialises in sex

and hormones and helping people feel better and reduce the risk of diseases and everything

else. So I've been stalking her quite a lot on social media more than

she realizes. And I love her openness. I love her evidence-based approach. And I just love her way that

she's just going to cut through all the noise and just get to her patients and really help. So welcome,

Kelly. Thanks for joining me today. Thank you for having me. It's a great honor. So my husband,

as many people know, is a

erodicist. And what he knows about menopause now is very different to what he knew 20 years ago

or longer when we were medical students. What I know about the menopause is very different.

And actually, today, earlier, I was talking to an ovarian cancer charity about

menopause. And I was rereading some papers that I read many years ago about how women after

a cancer diagnosis fall off a cliff. And no one talks about sex. And the majority of women do

have problems with sex. And not just sex, but about sex. And the majority of women do have problems with sex.

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