Hello and welcome to the Get Your Globe at podcast, a wellness podcast for mums.

This is episode 10 with Dr Anita Mitra.

Dr. Mitra is a London-based doctor who qualified in 2011 and has experience in both

academic research and clinical medicine. She was currently training to be a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology.

Dr. Mitra appears online as The Guine Geek and is the author of The Geinie Geek,

Your No Nonsense Guide to Down There Healthcare, which is out now.

In today's episode, we talk through all things

vaginal health. We start off by looking at fertility and work all the way to postnatal and menopause.

We chat all about how, why you really don't need to shave your vagina before you see your doctor.

Guys, it's a real thing. Everyone seems to be doing it.

Tips to prevent vaginal dryness, lifestyle tips to manage your hormones and PCOS, and all about

her incredible new book. She's so insightful about vaginal health, and it's something I think we don't

talk enough about. And if you do have a vagina and you're listening to this, we need to get in touch with it. We need to understand it. It can tell us so much about what's going on with our health. I think you're going to really enjoy this episode. It's a little bit longer than my usual ones, but we just had so much to cover. And for everything we chat about today, you can find all the details in the show notes,

which is at Madelineshaw.com forward slash episode 10. Right, let's bring on the wonderful Anita.

Welcome Anita to the podcast. Hi, thanks for having me.

Thank you. I've come over to your beautiful flat and we're just sitting having a nice cup of herbal tea.

Yeah, thanks for coming.

I like to start off the podcast by asking what you ate for breakfast.

So what happened this morning?

Oh, well, if you'd come about two minutes earlier, you would have seen me hoofing it down.

So I went to the gym this morning,

so I had eggs on toast when I came back, so scrambled eggs, usually with a good dose of fetter

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