Hello and welcome to the Get Your Globe at podcast. I'm joined today by the amazing Emma Bardwell,

nutritional therapist, Sheelux contributor and women's health and menopause expert. Emma is on a mission

to demystify the menopause and empower other women to enter their midlife confidently and without fear of the unknown.

On today's podcast, Emma shared her advice on mastering the menopause,

how we can start preparing for the menopause in our 30s,

and the role of all treatments, including nutrition and lifestyle, play in our experience of the menopause.

I hope you enjoyed listening to this episode.

Let's bring on the wonderful Emma. Emma, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much. I've been following you for a

long time, so I'm so happy to have wangled my way in. Oh, well, it's an honour to have you here.

So we're going to be talking today about menopause, which is a topic that probably

we don't talk enough about until it happens to us, often a bit like your pelvic floor or things

like that until you have to get to know it. You don't speak about it. So I feel like let's kind of just

start off with what is menopause for those that don't know? Yeah, absolutely. So you're right. It's not

talked about and it's particularly not talked about, I think, for younger women such as yourself.

So in a nutshell, it is when your period stop. So it's menopause, so menstruation,

menopause, stop. The average age is 51 and it's usually a kind of natural

part of ageing, but for some women it might occur earlier and that might be because of genetics or

it might be because of surgery. Okay. And how about perimenopause? Is that the stage leading up to it?

Yeah. So perimenopause is actually probably the most important bit of the journey, I think,

because that's when all the kind of symptoms tend to rear. And it can be quite a long journey,

actually, for lots of women.

I think there's this real kind of misnomer that it happens in your 50s and it happens

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