Hello and a very big welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Hazel Wallace,

and today I'm joined by two very special guests chat all about sexual health.

Now, I don't know about you guys, but at school I didn't get a whole lot of education on sexual health.

And it really wasn't until I was at medical school that I fully appreciated

how much there is to learn when it came to STIs and contraception and pregnancy, etc. However, it's still

not talked about very much, which only exacerbates the stigma attached to many important issues

regarding sexual health. So hopefully this episode will help dispel some of the myths

and open up the conversation when it comes to sex. So I hope you really enjoy the episode. I had a lot

of fun with the guys and we had a bit of banter as well along the way. So it's a good episode.

And don't forget to keep listening towards the very end when I share this week's challenge,

which is festive themed in time for Christmas.

Okay, so today I'm joined on the podcast by not just one, but two guests.

Dr. Alex George, who is a doctor working in A&E, but better known for recently featuring on

this year's Love Island, and Dr. Neha Pathak who is a sexual

and reproductive health doctor working in London. Welcome guys. Hi. I don't know if it's that I'm

better known for being on Love Island or that it's like is that a good thing or not? I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I guess you're for it. So if that's better, that's tricky. Anyway. So today I've got you guys on to talk about sexual health. Great. I guess it's something that we haven't really talked about on the food medic before or within my platform. But I think it's something really important that we talk about. I feel like if we don't talk about it, we're not going to break the stigma. Definitely. It's quite a different topic to your usual as about the salads and whatnot. But just that's important. It's something that really affects young people. I think it's, it plays a big part in their health as a whole. So yeah, it's good. And it's something that happens every day just like eating. So we've got to look after that. So I don't know about you guys,

but when I was at school, I didn't really get much sex ed. I felt most of the stuff that I

learned was from listening to older siblings or like speaking to friends. Completely the same. Nothing

at school. My favorite story is having the school nurse who was about 55 years old really big gray hair

squatting in front of us to show us how to put in a tampon and that was our whole sex education

there wasn't even a mention of STIs condoms nothing um so then you just have friends you just have

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