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 some of you might have heard my podcast recently with Lisa Musconi, who's the most

amazing neuroscientist, who's done incredible work and continues to do work to champion for

women's health and our hormones and our brains. So welcome back, Neza. Thanks for coming

back to the studio. Thank you. So I'm very excited again to talk to you. I'm always excited

because actually I love it when people can talk my language I speak to so many

people and they look at me and go what's she going on about oh my goodness how does she think

hormones work in the brain but I talk to you and it's just like yeah of course it's so

obvious so I love it I love your intelligence and energy and your book that came out before

the XX brain was phenomenal it was was really good. I read it,

I recommend it to a lot of people. It unpicks a lot of very basic science. But you've got a

new book that's just launched. And I was very fortunate. I don't know. I might not able to say

this, Lisa, that you actually shared with me the proof of the book. And I flew to Australia in a conference.

And Rebecca Lewis, who's also a doctor and medical specialist, was with me, reading a novel, watching stupid films.

She said, what are you doing, Louise?

I said, I've got my red pen.

I'm going through this book because I want to read it and I want to help Lisa.

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