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The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show

Friday Five: Menopause myth busting, with Kate Muir

The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show

Liz Earle

Wellbeing, Arts, Gut Health, Self-improvement, Women's Health, Beauty, Healthy Ageing, Menopause, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Hormones, Supplements, Health, Exercise, Fashion & Beauty, Fitness, Education, Better Second Half, Skincare, Liz Earle

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Friday Five, Liz chats to Kate Muir, journalist, campaigner and author of Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (but were too afraid to ask), to bust myths about the menopause. They also discuss the lack of joined-up thinking in women's medicine as well as Kate's 2021 Channel 4 documentary Sex, Myths and the Menopause, which was presented by Davina McCall.

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Hello and welcome to my Friday 5 podcast.

0:48.0

And this week I am really so delighted to be welcoming a woman on to the show here

0:54.0

who has become one of our leading menopause warriors.

0:58.0

Kate Muir, she started life as a campaigning journalist,

1:02.0

covering so many issues from war zones to public health.

1:06.0

She was a features writer for the Times in New York, Paris and Washington,

1:11.0

as well as becoming the chief film critic for the newspaper.

1:15.0

Well more recently, she turned her activist eye to the subject of the menopause,

1:20.0

being the co-creator of the Revolutionary Channel 4 Menopause documentary,

1:25.0

Sex, Myths and Menopause, hosted of course last year by Davina McCall.

1:30.0

And now she is publishing a blistering attack on these sloppy science and historical headlines, her words,

1:37.0

with her own completely brilliant book.

1:40.0

Everything you need to know about the menopause, but we're too afraid to ask,

1:44.0

which is published this week.

1:46.0

She says that she wants to name, shame, blame and reframe the menopause with her book.

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