Hello and welcome to Made My Mommas the podcast. I'm Zoe Hardman and I'm George Dayton.

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Welcome to Friday's episode of the podcast. It's just me again. I mean, not sure where Zoe is.

Has she made it back from Abithra or not? She has. She will be joining us shortly. But I have got

another amazing guest on today. And we are going to be talking all things women's health skin hair loss and actually

with a guest who messaged us back in 2020 so joining us today is dr shereem hello hi i'm good

thank you thank you for having me it's so funny so like six years later i'm here and when I actually message you guys, I'd just set up my Instagram, but I didn't, I think in my wildest dreams, I'd never thought back then I'd come on as a guest or anything. It was a genuine just. And I feel like we didn't see it, which is even worse. Because I look back and I was like, why have, like, you've been on our expert list for ages. So I don't know. Six years later. Yeah. Here we go. So that's great. Just before we get into all the questions, because we actually recorded a podcast a few weeks ago with Holly Hagen and Charlie Hedges. And we were talking about periods and, you know, why they change and all that kind of stuff. And since then, we've had so

many people message like, oh my God, please do it. Like, do an episode where we can answer all

these women's health questions. So before we get into all of those, because there's been so many,

do you want to just give the audience a bit of background on you? You started your Instagram

six years ago, but you are a GP. Yeah, so I am an NHS GP.

I still work as an NHS GP, so I have it three days a week. And I actually became a GP.

This year will be 10 years since I've been a GP. And when I started working, after a couple of

years, I just felt to myself within the NHS system, it is very stretched at the moment.

You have 10 minute

appointments and I felt like I wasn't giving my patients, but particularly women, the time that

they needed with me to be able to explain their medical conditions, whether it's PCOS, endometriosis,

well enough for them to go away feeling satisfied. So back in 2019, I decided to set up an

Instagram and I used to just share just, it was all infographics. It was before even Reels

existed, but it was just like cartoon pictures with the caption to be very educational. And it ended

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