Dr Louise Newson: I was "told off" for prescribing HRT

The Shift with Sam Baker

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.8 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Today we’re celebrating Menopause Awareness month (now there’s a phrase I couldn’t have imagined saying four years ago when I was writing The Shift book and everyone was telling me no-one was interested in menopause or women over 40…) And I’m delighted that my guest is a leading light in the British menopause movement. Dr Louise Newson is a GP and menopause specialist who is passionate about increasing awareness of menopause and perimenopause care for all women. (That ALL is crucial.) As well as her own private practice specialising in menopause, Louise is founder of the Balance app and the Menopause Charity. Plus author of the bestseller, the definitive guide to perimenopause and menopause. Louise joined me to talk about her personal menopause experience (sorry to say, even doctors struggle to get help), the lack of female role models in medicine and what drives her menopause mission. She recalls being ‘told off’ for prescribing HRT, her battle to get women’s health front and centre on the agenda and answers some of your most asked questions. If you’d like to hear some alternative menopause perspectives, try my episodes with Dr Jen Gunter, Mariella Frostrup and Karen Arthur. Listenn to the Dr Louise Newson Podcast here. * You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at The Shift bookshop on Bookshop.org, including The Definitive Guide to the Perimenopause and Menopause by Dr Louise Newson, and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me. * And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter plus loads more content including exclusive transcripts of the podcast, why not join The Shift community, come and have a look around at www.theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com • The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Juliette Nicholls @ Pineapple Audio Production. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.9	Hello and welcome to The Shift, the podcast that aims to tell the no-holds-barred truth about being a woman post-40, created and hosted by me, writer and broadcaster, Sam Baker.
0:44.9	Today, we're celebrating Menopause Awareness Month. Now, there's a phrase I couldn't have imagined saying four years ago when I was writing The Shift, the book for Shift,
0:55.4	and everyone was telling me, oh, no one's interest in menopause or women over 40. Well, I'll resist
1:01.2	the urge to say, yeah, boo sucks to you. But anyway, I'm delighted that my guest is a leading
1:06.7	light in the British Menopause movement. Dr. Newsom is a GP and menopause specialist,
1:12.7	who is passionate about increasing awareness of menopause and perimenopause care for all women.
1:18.5	That all is crucial. As well as her own private practice specialising in menopause,
1:24.2	Louise is founder of the Balance app and the menopause charity. Plus, she's the author of the
1:29.3	bestseller, the definitive guide to perimenopause and menopause. Do you know what? I'm a white
1:34.4	middle class educated woman who's really struggled to get treatment. Like this is not right, actually.
1:40.2	And I wish I'd say, you know, seven years later, things have got easier. But I don't think they have.
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