133 - Recognising and getting help for your perimenopause with Dr Rebecca Lewis

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dr Rebecca Lewis, Clinical Director at Newson Health, returns to the podcast for the first episode of 2022 to discuss the perimenopause with Dr Louise Newson. The experts explain what the term means, what’s happening to your hormones during this phase, and how it can be diagnosed. Rebecca offers practical advice on how to speak to your healthcare professional to convey the range of related perimenopausal symptoms and raise the issue of hormones. Find out what your increased health risks are when your hormones change and what you can do to mitigate these risks. The perimenopause is discussed as an opportunity to take stock and consider introducing some small changes to your lifestyle that will improve both your physical and mental health. Rebecca’s 3 top tips if you think you might be perimenopausal: Take control and think about balancing your hormones and protecting your future health Get a diagnosis earlier rather than later, download the free balance menopause support app and start tracking your periods and symptoms Consider HRT to help your symptoms and feel better, and then you can look at making changes to your lifestyle that will benefit your future health and wellbeing.

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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.
0:46.0	So today I've got back with me in the studio, Dr Rebecca Lewis, who some of you will know.
0:51.9	She's the medical director with me here in my clinic
0:54.2	instructor, Bonavon. She's also one of the directors of the balance app, the free app that we have.
1:00.0	She's also a director of the not-for-profit company. We have Houston Health Research and Education.
1:06.3	She's a very good friend, mentor, and also a GPAA of menopause specialist. So lots of great things.
1:13.0	Thanks, Rebecca, for joining me today. Thanks for inviting me. It's lovely to be here.
1:17.5	So we thought we would talk today about the perimenopause. Obviously, I spend the majority of my
1:22.6	life thinking and talking about the menopause, but the perimenopause is something that happens to
1:28.8	most of us actually, and often when we're not expecting it. So we thought we'd spend a bit of time
1:33.8	talking about that today, because I haven't done a podcast dedicated to the peri menopause.
1:39.0	So just explain a record, what does peri mean? What does peri menopause mean? It's a new term for a lot of
1:45.0	people. Yes, it is. It's a relatively new term, actually, in the world of menopause. But, well,
1:49.7	let's start with menopause. Menopause is really a year and a day after your last natural period.
1:55.5	Meno means month, pause to stop. So the perimenopause is the time leading up to that last period, which can
2:03.6	precede the last period by about 10 years. It's a time when the ovary starts to fail. It doesn't
2:10.3	just stop completely. It starts to fail as we run out of eggs. And at this time, as we're running
2:16.1	out of eggs and the ovaries beginning to fail,
2:18.9	we start to fail to produce reliably the hormones, estrogen, progesterone and testosterone.
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