So I've got two guests on my podcast today. I've got Mariella Fostrop and Balesbury

and we're talking about their new cookery book called Menolicious. We talk about how important it is

to eat healthily, how it is important that we cook and create meals from scratch, how we don't

spend too much money or too much time on our food, but we look after ourselves, we improve our

gut health and our metabolism. So there's lots of tips and nuggets here, so I hope you enjoy it.

Welcome, both of you. It's a double act on the podcast today. And I'm really excited. Mariela,

I've known you, I think, for quite a few years it feels like,

but Bells, I've not met you before. So it's great that you're both here and you've been brought

together because of the fabulous book that I have on my lap that you have written together. And I

was just saying before we joined that I feel a bit cheated because I can't taste

any of the food because we're doing this remotely. So maybe when I meet you, you can give me

some of the granola that you've been shaking in front of me on the screen.

Absolutely. So Mariella, you do a lot, obviously, in menopause, and we've spoken before about

how awful things are for women. I think they're getting worse rather than better. Things are

moving forward and backwards at the same time. But in my mind, it's so important that women are

given all the information they can to make choices that are right for them.

And I know that you agree with this as well.

You know, as a physician, a clinician, I'm really fine that it's very important not just to be thinking about a treatment or not just being thinking about a disease or a disorder.

It's looking at being the healthiest

version of yourself. And as a doctor, I'm also ashamed to say that I've had very poor training

as an undergraduate about nutrition and food. Yeah, it's the building block for everything that we do.

And I often say to people, if I wasn't specialising in hormones, I would specialize in nutrition.

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