Menopause Supplements

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Can supplements claiming to make menopause symptoms more bearable, really help?

Going through menopause can result in a myriad of symptoms, leaving women stressed, exhausted, and desperate for anything that might make it easier to deal with.

In recent years, a huge range of products have become available in supermarkets, pharmacies and online, all promising to help alleviate some of these symptoms – for a price. So listener Susie, who said she felt she was experiencing some of these symptoms, got in touch with Sliced Bread, to ask if it might be money well spent?

Greg Foot drills down into the top ingredients of these supplements and their claims, alongside GP Dr Helen Wall who runs a Menopause Clinic in Greater Manchester. They look at what the science says, and ask if these supplements really can support women through the menopause?

RESEARCHER: PHIL SANSOM PRODUCER: KATE HOLDSWORTH, PHIL SANSOM & GREG FOOT

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0:57.8	Each episode, I run one of your suggested wonder products through the evidence mill to find out if it is indeed the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS.
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1:05.7	Welcome, Susie.
1:06.5	Hi.
1:07.0	What wonder product would you like us to investigate today?
1:10.2	Supplements designed to help support
1:12.1	people going through perimenopause and menopause. Why is this one particularly interesting for you?
1:17.7	Well, I kept hearing all that information about perimenopause starting well before menopause
1:22.3	and started to notice that some of the things that were talked about were my symptoms. So brain fog,
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