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 with me, I have someone I've known actually all my life. She's my older sister,

so older and wiser, you might say, and she's been working in the background

in menopause for a while, but never trained as a doctor. We have very different backgrounds,

very different qualifications, but now she works pretty much all the time about the menopause,

which we'll talk about in a minute. So it's my sister, Sarah Davis. So hi, Sarah. Thanks for joining me

today. Hello. Good to be here. Thank you. So you're three years older than me and a lot of people

think I'm older because I'm far more boring and all I do is work and all I've ever done is work,

whereas you're far more interesting and sociable than me. So obviously I went off to medical school.

I don't think we've got anyone in our family who's medical, have we, who's medically trained.

No, not all.

So I sort of went off.

We've always been very respectful of each other's careers and what we've done with our lives.

But then a few years ago, I was setting up my clinic.

And as many of you know, I set it up

privately because I wanted to get some of my friends off antidepressants and I couldn't get a job in

the NHS. So I was working just one day, a week, in a local hospital and I needed someone to

just help me really. So I reached out to you to say, is there any way you can help me? Obviously,

you live nowhere near me and how come we would make this work? And at the time, I don't know

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