Hello and as the title of this podcast suggests I am delighted.

Hello and a very warm welcome to Wellness with Liz Earl

and as the title of this podcast suggests, I am delighted to be rejoined

by a regular guest here, Dr Louise Newsom, practicing GP and Menopause Specialist Extraordinare, who you may already know from our previous

podcast together and our Facebook lives, or even from reading my book, The Good Menopause

Guide where Louise was a medical consultant. She runs a brilliant website called Menopause where Louise was a medical consultant.

She runs a brilliant website called Menopause Doctor,

dotco. UK, and I especially like her

Instagram account, which is, I think, Menopause

underscore Doctor, and it's's daily very helpful postings.

Usually the first thing I look at in the morning actually Louise.

So welcome back.

Now today because you are a medic and because we've covered so many menopausal and perimenopausal

topics in the past together I thought it would be a great opportunity to really pick

your brains on medical matters so you as a practicing qualified top doctor in this area are so brilliantly well placed to talk about.

And I think the first thing that we should talk about from a medical point of view is the safety of

H.L.T. because this is a recurring thing that

comes up on our menopause Facebook group all the time. Give us the facts and

figures here. Yeah and I think that's really right. Most people I talk to that's what they want to

know is about HRT and HRT obviously is only one part of the management of

the menopause but it's an important part it It's only three letters, hormone replacement therapy,

and there are different hormones and there are different types, there are different doses.

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