So I wanted to use this time to reflect on the year. It's the end of 2025. And I'm always reflecting,

thinking about are we making progress or are we going back in time? What's happening for women?

And obviously I'm very close to a lot of women. I see a huge amount of women in my clinic,

on the street, through my social media, just listening to stories.

And sometimes I feel really encouraged. I think how wonderful women are being listened to.

They're being believed. They're being prescribed hormones when they want them.

Their future health is improved. Their symptoms are improving. There's so much positivity going on.

And then other days, I don't feel quite as happy. I feel very frustrated. I feel very angry.

And I often feel very sad for the injustice of those women who are unable to be listened to,

who are not being believed, who are being dismissed by the medical community and are

unable to access hormones. So I thought I would just think of it about what's been going on

over the last year and whether anything is really helping. Now I'm going to talk positively first

because I'm quite a negative person and I think that's not

very good to just focus on negative aspects of life. So let's think in a positive way. I feel that

a lot of my work is about empowering people, giving people information in ways that they understand so they can make choices

that are right for them about their health and their future health. So I've been working very

hard with a huge team of people to try and help improve this knowledge sharing. So some of you

hopefully will have noticed I've rebranded

the podcast, the Dr Louise Newsom podcast. I've got these wonderful studios that I rent and it's just so

comforting coming here and every single guest who's come into these studios has really enjoyed

the atmosphere. Jack who runs the studios is

fantastic. He helps us, he reassures us, he encourages us. We have a few tears, but we also have

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