You could be a nun and suffer from severe GSM because you're waking up at night to use the bathroom all the time.

You can't dance with your grandchildren because you leak.

The bacteria may get up into the kidneys really quickly which can then go

throughout the bloodstream and cause really severe sepsis which can lead to organ

failure all over the place so bacterial infections can lead to very significant organ failure and we can't predict who is going to just need one course of antibiotics and who is going to end up in the hospital with a kidney infection.

Well that's the voice of Dr. Rachel Rubin, a urologist and sexual medicine specialist who,

while not wanting to scare us, wants us to know that UTIs are killing women.

I'm Liz Earl, welcome to the Liz El Well-being show, the podcast helping us all have a better second half. As you know, it is my mission to find ways

for all of us to thrive in later life by investing especially in our health and our well-being today.

Now more than half of women get UTIs.

I'm sure we all know the burning sensation of peeing, rushing to the

lieu every 10 minutes, the abdominal pain, the fever. And I personally know all too well how

completely awful recurrent UTIs are. They plagued my 40s and 50s. I spent so much time and money seeing

doctors, even expensive consultant specialists, being prescribed ever more

powerful nuclear strength antibiotics,

none of which helped and of course all of which

contributed to wrecking my microbiome.

Well Rachel is a board certified urologist and sexual medicine specialist.

In fact, she's one of only a handful of physicians with fellowship training in sexual medicine for all.

In the last five years, there were 1.8 million hospital admissions involving

UTIs in England alone. Staggering, nearly 2 million hospital admissions, let that sink in.

So what do we mean when we say UTIs have the potential to be a killer?

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