Your sexual health with Dr Paula Briggs
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Trish and Lorraine find out what to do if your sex life has become a peri-menopause casualty. Joined by the sexual and reproductive health expert and menopause specialist, Dr Paula Briggs, they discuss how to revive a lost libido and how to recognise symptoms of sexual health disorders. And they explore treatments for the 80% of women who suffer a degree of vaginal atrophy at this life stage.
Plus: How to drag teens away from the Pot Noodle and get them to eat healthily - without causing a row.
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| 0:00.0 | What is more difficult? |
| 0:02.7 | Reverse parking blindfold, a handbrake on, or teaching my dad how to use FaceTime. |
| 0:11.9 | I think that's an obvious one, isn't it? It's the second answer. |
| 0:15.5 | I've just spent 45 minutes to look at the top of his head. |
| 0:19.3 | I think it's his head. I mean, I don't know. I mean, bless. |
| 0:23.1 | I think it might be easier to teach an octopus. |
| 0:25.5 | I think it could be right. You can do it. |
| 0:27.9 | Well, I get my dad's nostrils on FaceTime. |
| 0:31.7 | Right up his nostrils. Why is this so? |
| 0:34.3 | Do you think this is going to happen to us? |
| 0:36.0 | Tensionally. There are warning signs, aren't there? |
| 0:38.6 | Already. |
| 0:39.6 | Definitely. We're not very good at taking the nostrils. |
| 0:42.4 | No. So imagine in 20 years, when we're a bit deaf, |
| 0:46.3 | and, you know, we've got hearing nostrils, it's going to be a disaster. |
| 0:49.6 | But it'll all be advanced as well, then. Won't it? |
| 0:51.7 | You'll be able to maybe hologram yourself |
| 0:54.0 | Oh God. |
| 0:54.9 | Into your children's front room. |
| 0:57.8 | That is the first thing we'll pay for all the mean things they do to us right now. |
| 1:02.7 | Serve them right to get a naked hologram of me |
| 1:04.8 | of a Sunday morning. |
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