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.

On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based

information and advice about both the perimenopause and the

menopause. So today I have back with me in the studios, Kate Muir, who has been before,

if any of you haven't listened, you need to listen to the first podcast we did together.

And we're back again. So thanks, Kate, for coming and joining me today. Thank you. I'm really

busy, actually. We're in the middle of filming the next Devena McCall Menopause documentary.

And my book's just come out. So in your sort of chaos. Absolutely. It sounds like my life, so perfect. So let's talk about your book

for a little bit, which has just come out, which is incredible. There have been a lot of books

about the menopause in the last few years, really. Obviously, mine is really important.

But yours should have been written by an academic, actually.

I think it is incredible.

The amount that you've learned, the amount that you've understood,

but actually you've not taken anything at face value.

So your book, I think, is unique to any other books out there in the market,

certainly in the menopause space.

So can you just explain a bit more

about what you write about and why it's so different? Well, what I hope to do was a really,

really good piece of investigative journalism, because that's where I come from. And I don't just

come from health and lifestyle world. I come from a place where we prove things. And, you know, I've been out in

the Gulf War and I've done quite a lot of dangerous things in my job. But it turned out that this

was by far the most complex and difficult subject I'd ever tackled. And the really shocking thing

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