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Today we're talking about menopause. For Davina McColl, menopause wasn't just a transition.

It was a quiet crisis. She felt like a stranger in her own body.

Overwhelmed by symptoms she wasn't prepared

for and didn't fully understand. But Davina didn't stay silent. Her book, Menopausee, has

helped millions of women feel supported and seen during this transformative stage of life.

In this episode, Davina joins us to share her personal journey, and we shared Zoe research that shows how diet can be a powerful tool for reducing menopause symptoms.

Well, I think the first symptom that I had that really hit me was a night sweat, and I would have been about 43 years old. I was on a job

in Prague and I stayed the night in a hotel and I woke up in the middle of the night and I was drenched.

My hair was wet. It wasn't like just you're a little bit hot in bed and you think, well, I must

throw the blankets off. It was bottom sheet

soaked right through, had to go and get a towel, duvet soaked right through, had to turn duvet over.

And I thought, my God, I'm ill. I'm really ill. And I woke up the next morning. I looked at myself,

and I thought, God, you really are ill. I felt pale.

I felt like my skin was kind of dry and I thought, God, I'm so dehydrated after sweating that much all night.

And I thought, well, hopefully it'll pass in a couple of days.

It happened again the next night.

And then it didn't happen for a while.

And I thought, oh, I'm better.

So what I've now realized is actually I had little non-physical symptoms, so psychological

symptoms a little bit before that.

So things like, I'm a very gung-ho person, anybody that knows me as a television host in

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