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.

Today on my podcast, I'm very excited to introduce to you, Dr. Felice Gersh, who is from America,

and I have been reading some of her work for a little

while, and I'm here really to explore and talk more about the role of our heart and hormones,

which is so important. So thank you so much for joining me today. Oh, my pleasure. So before we

get started about how important our heart and hormones are, really keen to hear just a bit about your background and why you're doing what you're doing and how you've come to where you are now in your career.

Well, I've been a practicing OBGYN for decades.

And even from the beginning of my practice, for some reason,

I haven't really figured it out. I knew that there was more to providing optimal care than just

providing surgeries and pharmaceuticals. So I incorporated my ancillaries from the very

beginning of my practice. I had a nutritionist. I had a

psychologist, a massage therapist, biofeedback. Actually, I had an acupuncture. So I had like an

array of additional types of care. And then a number of years ago, I decided after thousands of

deliveries, it was my time to hang it up and

not do any more deliveries and obstetrics. And then I had this void in my life. It's like,

what am I doing when I started looking at what was happening in medicine? And I looked at some of the

...