Meg Mathews’s menopause story — and how she got strong again
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Telling it like it is, the activist and entrepreneur Meg Mathews shares her menopause story, from misdiagnosis to osteoporosis, with Lorraine and Trish. Find out how she coped when severe anxiety took hold, and how HRT, diet and exercise have made her strong again.
Plus: helping stressed teens, cleansing balms and the joys of cold-water swimming.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! I'm Trish Halpin and I'm Lorraine Candy. |
| 0:06.3 | Welcome to Postcards from Mid Life. |
| 0:08.2 | The show where we help you through the Mid Life, the Menopause, Motherhood and everything in between. |
| 0:15.0 | In this episode of Postcards from midlife we're going to be talking about our |
| 0:20.0 | bodies and how they're behaving now that we're at this life stage. |
| 0:23.2 | We're also going to be sharing some of our recent personal adventures, stuff |
| 0:27.1 | we're winning at right now and things that are giving our hearts and minds a |
| 0:30.8 | little flatter. We're also going to be looking at teenagers and anxiety, |
| 0:35.6 | how to spot the signs and how to help and support your adolescent through them. |
| 0:40.8 | Today we have a very special guest in the studio to help us discuss this and she is indeed |
| 0:46.5 | very entertaining so Meg Matthews who runs Meg's menopause.com her mom had osteoporosis so very much part of Meg's treatment |
| 0:57.0 | for the menopause which she tried a lot of things has been to make herself |
| 1:00.8 | stronger has been to address her bones and the structure and her general fitness. So we will be talking |
| 1:07.0 | to Meg about what she's done, how she does it and actually I think more importantly how she |
| 1:11.8 | started because when you go through the menopause |
| 1:14.8 | you feel pretty down and you don't have any energy some people get extreme fatigue |
| 1:20.0 | and it's very difficult just to put your trainers on and do anything and if you don't live in a city if you don't live where you can't get to something very quickly you have to motivate yourself and Meag is very good on that and we'll be asking her all about |
| 1:33.7 | that but first of all Trish let's talk about your body how are you feeling about |
| 1:37.1 | your body my body my body um do you know I'm actually feeling quite good about my body |
| 1:41.0 | my measure of that is do I get up without any aches and pains and can get out a bit out |
| 1:46.0 | You making that sound when you get off the sofa? |
| 1:48.0 | The effort noise, yes. |
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