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avante west coast feel good travel. Hello and And welcome to another jam-packed episode of Wellness with Liz Earl.

And today it's a real cracker.

And it's such a pleasure actually to be joined by Dr. Shazadee Harper.

Now Shazadee is a London-based GP specializing in women's well-being and is so passionate

about optimal, optimal, even, hormonal health so that we can all feel confident and sexy whatever our age.

So much to chat about welcome.

Thank you.

And what's fascinating talking to you

is that it's not just when you're looking at hormonal health and the menopause in particular

it's not just older women you was telling me earlier just before we started recording that for many

cultures it starts very much earlier I mean you you have an Indian background is that right?

I have a Pakistani background but one of the things is I think that people always think of

sort of post menopausal or menopausal women as being sort of silver-haired wearing slacks running on the beach but actually I believe that you need to start thinking about your hormones from the age of 40 onwards and the average age of menopause in India is 46 and a half and they're very much

actual menopause so that's actual period stopping

actual period stopping similarly here in this country the average age is 51 but in India

it's 46 and a half so you know I think we need to think

about it sometimes from different ethnic backgrounds that people may have

slightly different ages of menopause and I think we need to really be aware of our hormones probably a bit earlier rather than later so we can do something about them.

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