A hormone masterclass to reboot your midlife health
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Trish and Lorraine talk to leading endocrinologist Dr Annice Mukherjee about the hormone fluctuations that affect women in midlife, from peri-menopause to underactive thyroid and adrenal burnout as well as the impact of surgical and chemical menopause.
Plus: how to manage post-lockdown teens during the summer holidays; mascaras and tinted moisturisers tried and tested and a Next Door inspired noodle
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| 0:00.0 | Oh Lorraine, I've got some very, very noisy new neighbours. It's just keeping me up at night, |
| 0:07.6 | while not keeping up at night, coming off in the morning. I'll pass five, they get going. |
| 0:11.8 | They're very, very loud, very, very squeaky. |
| 0:16.2 | Well, the parakeets are having a party. The parakeets have moved into the tree in the garden |
| 0:22.3 | behind our house next door, but one. They're so loud! The parakeets want to take them away. |
| 0:29.0 | Is it mating season? I don't know what they're doing, but I wish they'd do it a bit more quietly. |
| 0:35.4 | They're just so annoying, and I'm having to put the earplugs in, and then they come back |
| 0:40.8 | at around five o'clock in the afternoon, just when you try and have a little quiet moment, |
| 0:45.0 | maybe in the garden. Do you like my impression? When you say a quiet moment in the garden, |
| 0:50.8 | you mean watching escape to the country again, don't you? |
| 0:54.2 | No, you don't mean quiet moment in the garden. No, well, maybe not, maybe a cup of tea. |
| 0:58.9 | You're talking about parakeets in the morning. I just have that vision of you lying in bed like |
| 1:04.1 | Cinderella with the birds flying around, like the Disney cartoon. |
| 1:12.8 | Hello! Welcome to Postcards from Midlife. I'm Lorraine Candy. I'm Trish Halpin, |
| 1:18.0 | and we're on a mission to help you make the most of your magnificent midlife. We'll be tackling |
| 1:22.7 | everything from mind and body wellness to HRT and your sex drive. Lorraine and I here to help |
| 1:28.0 | you have a stylish second act and answer all your midlife questions on fashion, beauty, careers, |
| 1:33.3 | relationships, family, and as always the challenges and joys of parenting teams. |
| 1:45.4 | Welcome to Postcards from Midlife. Everyone at Trish, have you noticed anything different |
| 1:49.9 | about me today? Am I more giddy than usual? Perky looking? More of a glint in my eye? |
| 1:55.2 | You might have to put your glasses on. I have to think. |
| 1:57.3 | Yes, I certainly need your glasses. Well, I think you aren't quite excitable and upbeat, |
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