Hello, I'm Liz Earle and a very warm welcome to the Lizar Wellbeing Show. It's Monday the 1st of December and I have lots of interesting health and well-being questions from you. So I'll be sharing some evidence-based science-backed research to help inspire you to feel your best as we head into the winter months.

Now, if you have a question that you'd like me to answer, do get in touch.

All the contact details are in the episode description and also at the end of the show.

So coming up today, I will be talking about some leading research that proves just how vital fish oils are for aging well.

Anne asks how much is too much vitamin D? Anonymous has a great question on body weight.

And Victoria asks about a viral potentially pro-aging face cream.

And our final question today is all about strengthening our bones.

Now before I get to your questions today, I just want to chat quickly through some research that I found on fish oils, because there was a really groundbreaking study showing that fish oil could help delay menopause by years. And this was showing that women taking omega-3 supplements may actually experience menopause later,

which could potentially reduce health risks.

This was new research that came out of the University of Leeds,

and they analysed data from over 3,500 British women.

It was published in the journal called Nutrients,

and it found that women who took fish oil supplements

experienced a dramatically lower early menopause

compared to those who didn't.

In fact, the research showed a 95% reduction

in the likelihood of menopause starting earlier than average.

And of course, we know that if you do start menopause early

and you're not given replacement hormones,

then you are at greater health risk of those lost hormones and those early years.

So menopause typically begins usually between the age of about 45 and early 50s.

For non-white women, that's often earlier.

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