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Avantee west coast, feel good travel. Hello, you're listening to me, Liz Earl, bringing you another riveting episode of Wellness with Lizzo and this time we're talking

hormones, menopausal hormones or the lack of them more specifically and what we could

or should be doing about them and I am delighted to be joined by Dr Louise Newsom,

literally one of the UK's leading menopause specialists

to guide us through that menopausal minefield of hormones, hot flashes,

HRT and more. So Louise welcome to my well-being studios. Thank you. It is really so highly anticipated this

podcast because I can't tell you the number of women. I suppose because I'm in my

mid-50s and a lot of my girlfriends are sort of 40s but even younger women that

there's just so many people who are interested in what's going on what will

happen the changes and so much of this that's going on in our lives and how we feel

particularly perhaps with our energy levels and our mood and our emotions can be

linked to the menopause which is extraordinary. So what do you find because you're a GP and a menopause special?

Yes, so I'm a GP but I also run a menopause clinic and I also I'm in my late

40s I have lots of friends similar age. One thing is that it's such a taboo it happens to all of us

we can't run away from the menopause it is going to happen whatever we do but so many people

don't know enough about it which is a surprise isn't it but then we don't

learn about it at school we don't always talk to our parents about it

you might have sex education and all of that but nobody says what happens at the other end.

No, well that's right. My teenage children are just told the menopause is when your period stop,

which is true, as you know, it's a year after your period stop but they're not told about any

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