The Menopause
The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan
Spiritland Creative
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
To round out our series of summer specials, we’ve combed the archive for some of the most insightful chats we’ve had about the menopause. There are a myriad of symptoms associated with menopause and it manifests differently for everyone, so it’s important we continue to talk about it and to share helpful tips that make this stage of life a little easier to navigate.
In this episode, you’ll hear from writer Lorraine Candy, model Penny Lancaster, MP Carolyn Harris who campaigned to make HRT more affordable for women in England, TV presenters Davina McCall and Lorraine Kelly, plus functional nutritionist Pippa Campbell, who explains why our body shape may change as we go through the menopause.
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| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to the midpoint with me Gabby Logan. Today I bring you the last of our summer |
| 0:41.8 | specials where we cherry pick the best bits from our archive. Some episodes you might have missed |
| 0:46.5 | and some you might like to be reminded of. This week we're focusing on something that impacts |
| 0:50.9 | almost all of us in midlife, the menopause. Obviously this has a far greater impact on female |
| 0:57.0 | midlifeers but surely every man in the world lives with works with or socialises with a woman |
| 1:01.6 | somewhere so there are learnings here for everyone. |
| 1:09.2 | Once I started learning more about the wide ranging symptoms of the menopause and then started |
| 1:13.6 | talking about them with other women around my age, the physical effects didn't disappear, |
| 1:17.7 | of course they didn't but they were much easier to cope with. I understood what was happening to |
| 1:22.4 | my body and I felt less alone. It's a similar story for journalist and writer Lorraine Candy who |
| 1:27.8 | like me is on a mission to dispel any shame associated with the menopause after her experiences. |
| 1:33.7 | I started to kind of unravel I guess you would say when I was in my late 40s and it was really |
| 1:40.8 | unexpected it was a complete surprise it was a physical and emotional unraveling and you know |
| 1:47.3 | lots of things are going on aren't they in the midpoint as as you often say you're children |
| 1:51.6 | getting older they're teenagers they're about to leave home your work circumstances are beginning |
| 1:56.8 | to change because careers change and everything changes at that stage and it sort of coincided with |
| 2:02.7 | what in retrospect I found out was the um buried menopause which I I mean you know I've edited |
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