130 - ‘It‘s a scandal that more isn‘t known about the menopause‘ with Dr Richard Hull

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dr Richard Hull teaches philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Due to a coming together of work life and home life in lockdown and his wife’s experience, Richard began thinking and writing about the menopause from an ethical and philosophical perspective. As an issue under our noses all the time, he was astounded that more isn’t written about it, and he queries the lack of ethical concern for women regarding this time of life and the impact on those around them. Richard discusses with Dr Louise Newson the importance of raising awareness of perimenopause and menopause, sharing accurate information, training healthcare professionals and empowering women with the right knowledge to recognise what is happening to them and to get the help they need through treatment. Richard’s 3 hopes for change: Personal and public awareness of the impact of the menopause is crucial For everyone to have the confidence to seek support in all its forms and find out about HRT Talk more and spread awareness and knowledge with others. The more people are aware, the less it can be ignored. You can read Richard’s article on the menopause here. Richard’s wife, Jaany, has written about her experience here.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause.
0:45.7	So today I'm very pleased to be interviewing someone called Richard Hull, who's actually
0:50.7	in Ireland as we speak, and we've never met face met face to face, but we've met virtually today.
0:56.1	And he wrote a very interesting article,
0:58.4	which really resonated with me,
1:00.0	and I really wanted to explore a bit more.
1:02.6	So before we go into that,
1:04.2	if you wouldn't mind, Richard,
1:05.4	just introducing yourself and a bit about your background,
1:09.5	if that's okay.
1:10.5	Yes, I'm a, well, I teach philosophy at
1:13.6	university. I worked all over the place really in Keel. I did some work at Oxford University.
1:20.4	That's where I did my post-grad training. And I've done a lot of research on issues to do with
1:26.6	disability as well as issues to do with genetic technology, which is a big interest of mine.
1:32.4	Recently been doing some work on non-invasive prenatal testing.
1:36.8	And then through sort of life experience came upon the menopause as an issue.
1:42.1	The lockdown was interesting because it brought work life
1:46.0	and home life together a bit. So the first session I wrote a piece about the response to the
1:52.4	pandemic, both in Ireland and the UK. And then laterally, I wrote a piece about the menopause,
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