Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsome. I'm a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-Pon-Avon.

I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.

Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause

and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,

and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.

This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,

which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.

So today on the podcast, I've got someone from America who I have met in real life,

some of my American guests I haven't met in real life, but I've got with me Anita Nicholson,

who's a nurse practitioner from Portland, Maine in America, and I met her at a conference.

We were both at a conference recently, a menopause conference, and I was presenting some of my

work from our clinic about testosterone and benefits, and we met at coffee and the coffee break wasn't long enough

actually because we were chatting and sharing our experiences of the patients we see and the journeys

that they have had before they come and see us and the transformational way that we can help

them. And it was just lovely to speak to a kindred

spirit, actually, who understood what we're trying to do and try and improve the lives of so many

people. So thanks for joining me today, Anita. It's very exciting to see you again. Yes, Louise.

Thank you for inviting me. So you're a nurse practitioner and you've had a really

interesting background actually, haven't you, looking at, you know, I think things change,

don't there as time, how you want to reduce diseases and improve longevity and it's a journey

to that age, not the age that we die necessarily.

And certainly how I practice medicine or think about medicine, about prevention,

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