Hello, this is the Liz Earl Well-being show, the podcast helping us all have a better second half.

I'm Liz Earl and my mission, as I'm sure you know by now, is to find ways for all of us to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today

And I know many of us are mid-lifers, myself included, and that means that we are likely to have

navigated our way through or maybe ongoing years of perimenopause, menopause and

post-menopause. While October is manopause and post menopause. Well October is menopause month. So today I just

want to reflect on some of the fascinating conversations that I've had about the menopause

here on the podcast over the last few years we've had some

exceptional world-class thought leaders here and I think it's a great way of getting lots of really

useful nuggets of information across to all of us, all in one go.

Weight gain, increased girth, loss of sexual desire, painful sexual intercourse,

frequent urinary tract infections.

It's not just about symptoms, it's about future health.

And if there aren't adequate doses then there can still be this increased risk of

diseases especially heart disease. You're waking up at night to use the bathroom all the time

you can't make it through a movie without urinary urgency. You can't

dance with your grandchildren because you lead.

Don't change our diet or even our exercise routine and yet we start to find this stubborn

fat laying down around the belly and the middle, and it can be really

puzzling for a lot of women.

So we're going to cover everything from what estrogen, testosterone and h HRT actually are to symptoms of menopause, including painful

sex, recurrent UTIs and deteriorating bone health.

Some of the things that we perhaps don't always associate with

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