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 we're going to talk about fibroids, something that's very common

and often people have lots of questions both on social media and in my clinic as well.

So I've got the great privilege of having Osami Najee with me, who has been talking on my podcast

before about bleeding when, especially on HRT. So that's a great podcast to listen to. So I've invited

him back again. He's a leading gynaecologist in London. We do a lot of work behind the scenes,

including some research together. So welcome back to the podcast today. Thank you so much for

having me again, Louise. Always, I've played to talk to you. Ah, so five points. Just let's just get

straight into it, really. They're really common. Different people, different papers I've read

have said different things. Some say two out of three women, which is a lot. So the majority of

women have fibroids. They're more common in certain races and certain ages of women. But just,

let's just go for it. What are fiboids? Lovely. Thank you very much. Thanks again for having me.

I'm delighted to be with you today and we will find

the next few minutes we are going to talk to be useful and informative to your audience and to your team as well.

So fibroids are common benign tumors of the genital tract in particular. They belong to the muscle layer originally from the uterus

they are very common like we said and we will try and we call it mansplain it explain it in

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