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Welcome to Dirty Motherpucker, our quickie, your little podcasting bit on the side. I'm Anna Whitehouse,

the founder of Mother Pucker. Thank you so much for joining me. And my best mate, Paul.

She's an NHSGP who specialises in hormones and nutrition. She is one of the most experienced

bioidentical and body-identical hormone doctors in

the UK. Her book is called The Tiredness Cure and her podcast is just out. It's called It's Your

Hormones. Sahare Rocket! Hello! Hello! Hi, thanks for having me. Welcome to Dirty Mother Pucker. In terms of hormones, like,

obviously we've talked about this extensively on the podcast that we're only just really

unpacking the various phases of a woman's life, okay? Like, you'll sort of have this,

it's almost like white noise your hormones in the background. That's how it's felt to me.

It's going, well, I know there's things happening, right? And perimenopause are there's stuff going on. I know around my period, there's some things going on, but I can't quantify, I can't

see it. It's this invisible sort of blanket affecting pretty much everything, right? Yeah, totally.

So why are we only just really talking about hormones?

So it's always been very taboo, hasn't it? And we don't talk about hormones, we don't talk about

periods. Well, it's been dismissed like, oh, she's just hormonal. Yeah, for sure. And we haven't

really seen it as something important or valuable to learn about.

But as a woman, it's just paramount that you know a little bit about what's going on with your body and not ignore it.

Because when we're ignoring it, we just don't really know what's going on with us, why we feel certain ways, when we should be scheduling certain things.

If we can understand a little bit

about what's going on in our body, we can make it easier for the people around us to understand.

So what are the signs? What are the signs that you're suffering hormonally? So I would say an easy

place to start is what's going on with your period. So is it regular? Is it heavy? Is it painful? Is it inconvenient?

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