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Age Better with Liz Earle

HRT explained: patches, tablets or gel – and which works best

Age Better with Liz Earle

Liz Earle

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

From navigating HRT confusion to gut health strategies and the truth about trendy wellness swaps, Liz answers your questions. 


In this episode:

  • Mouth taping – can it stop snoring? And does it cause fine lines? 
  • Which type of HRT should I take if I'm exhausted and confused?
  • Collagen supplements and allergies
  • The link between stress and gut health 
  • Liz's take on matcha 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Liz Earle and a very warm welcome to age better. And I do hope the new year is treating you very well so far. Do you know, I love Monday's shows because they're all about you, your time to share questions with me and I will answer them with no nonsense science-backed research to hopefully encourage you to live

0:23.0

well and enjoy life. That's what it's all about, isn't it? So if you have a question that you

0:28.1

would like me to answer, do get in touch. All the contact details are in the episode description

0:33.2

and at the end of the show. Well, coming up today, I will be talking about one of my favourite sleep hacks.

0:40.6

I'm going to help Karen get started on her HRT journey.

0:45.1

Sadie asks about collagen, and then Nicola needs a little bit of help managing stress and her gut.

0:52.5

And then lastly, I will be sharing my thoughts on matcha.

1:02.6

So let's start today with a question from Anonymous and you ask,

1:07.4

Hi Liz, I have a question about mouth taping, which I know you are a fan of. I am indeed. I have

1:14.1

been using myotape for about a year and it has absolutely changed my sleep along with HRT. I now sleep

1:22.3

soundly after 15 years of insomnia. It's been life-changing. However, I find that the tape leaves

1:30.5

indentation lines on each side of my mouth down to my jawline that are becoming more prominent.

1:36.3

It's starting to make me want to discontinue the mouth taping, but I'm dreading the effect

1:41.7

on my sleep. My skin is not particularly lined elsewhere. I wondered

1:46.8

if you've noticed any changes in your skin when you remove the tape in the morning hoping you can

1:52.3

help. Thank you. Well, I love that. You know, I am a massive fan of mouth taping and myotape.

1:59.6

And I have a sleep tracker app and when I use that, I notice that I am

2:05.4

snoring, shh, yes, snoring a lot less. And I can only put it down to mouth taping. So for those of you

2:13.4

who aren't familiar with it, let me just explain. Mouth taping is simply the practice of

2:19.1

very gently encouraging nasal breathing while we sleep by putting a little bit of tape over the lips,

2:25.1

so not sealing the mouth shut, but just acting as a reminder to breathe through the nose

2:31.7

when we are not conscious because we're fast asleep. Well, nasal breathing

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