135 - Tackling the Everest of menopause ignorance with Mariella Frostrup

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Journalist and presenter, Mariella Frostrup, joins Dr Louise Newson for an energetic discussion and a whistle-stop tour through current insights and reflections on the way society approaches the menopause. Mariella talks about why she is ‘still banging on’ about the menopause, why you needn’t be afraid of HRT, and why it’s time to stop the silence and shame that surround it. In 2018, Mariella presented one of the first documentaries on the menopause and broke the taboo of celebrities speaking honestly about their own experiences. Mariella’s recent book, ‘Cracking the Menopause: While Keeping Yourself Together’, separates the myths from the reality and offers expertise, hope and advice for all affected by the peri/menopause. Mariella’s 4 hopes to improve the experience of menopausal women: Knowledge is our armour; we each need be more informed individually so we can combat the myths and ignorance we will be faced with. We need a trained menopause professional in every GP practice in the land and an invitation from the NHS for every woman to come for an appointment before the average onset of perimenopause, to let her know what will happen and how she can get help. There should be menopause groups everywhere, so everyone can find support and we should all educate our daughters about it. We need to ensure women are supported in the workplace so they can remain the valuable and experienced team members that they are. Find out more about Mariella’s work at www.mariellafrostrup.co.uk ‘Cracking the Menopause: While Keeping Yourself Together’ is published by Bluebird.

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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.
0:45.4	So today with me in the studio, I have Mariella Fosterop, who some of you might know from all the
0:51.5	amazing work she does, but some of you might know because she really
0:54.3	did one of the first menopause television programs, actually, about the menopause and really
0:58.8	started the conversation. Since then, she's brought out a brilliant book called Cracking the
1:03.5	menopause. And I just thought I would get her here today in the studio really to talk about
1:08.8	things that she's learned and what she feels about
1:11.7	the menopause and if things have improved over the last few years since you've been talking
1:15.1	and thinking about it. So welcome today, Mariela. Thank you very much. I'm so honored. You are
1:21.2	literally the empress of the menopause. So I am but a small little weakling in your great orbit.
1:26.8	Oh, no, don't say that.
1:27.9	I'm not at all.
1:29.1	I've just got a big mouth and I'm really cross, actually.
1:32.3	And I never wanted to be this person.
1:34.9	I really didn't.
1:36.0	And when you did your programme that you very brilliantly presented,
1:40.5	I remember doing a bit of Twitter and then I stopped and I was getting really,
1:44.7	really cross actually and we can talk about why I got cross in a bit, not with you, but I hasten to add.
1:49.8	And then, just the more people I speak to either in my clinic or just on social media or
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