If you stop using your HRT today, by tomorrow, it's going to be out of your body, so it's

not like I'm giving you an injection or a life changing operation where you, you know,

you can't reverse it.

So that is one thing that I think is really important for people to remember.

And the second thing is we never start people on high doses despite what the man on Sunday

tried to instigate.

So we start people on a dose that's right for them, which is well within license range.

And then we review and modify according to their individual needs.

Well, I suspect you already know who that voice belongs to.

It's a good friend of mine and friend of the show, Dr Louise Newson.

October is Menopause Month, so she's here to talk to us about the practicalities of taking

HRT.

I'm Lizelle and this is the Lizelle Wellbeing Show.

On this podcast, I chat to people who might just be able to help us all have a better

second half.

Yes, you know, I'm on a real mission to find ways for us all to thrive in later life

by investing in our health and our wellbeing today.

Okay, HRT, for me, it's not just an optional extra.

It's a fundamentally important part of my health and wellbeing, my physical and mental

health, my emotional stability, my strength, my cognition, my everything.

And this should come as no surprise as a midlife woman.

I am depleted in the essential hormones that fuel every single cell in my body without

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