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 I'm really very excited to have somebody who's currently training in Houston.

She's making me feel very old and very unfit, but she's someone who's

really inspirational, as someone we're going to be hearing about more and more, I'm sure. So Desire

Henry is a world-class athlete and a runner, and she's training for Paris and has just been forging ahead in ways that lots of people would love to do.

So I'm really delighted that she's agreed to come onto my podcast. So welcome today.

Oh, no. Thank you. I feel like you're the celebrity in this situation. I've seen quite a few of your

podcast, especially the one with Joe Wicks. So just to be able to have the opportunity to keep with you, I'm so, so happy.

So again, thank you for this.

Ah.

So I'm really interested in so much, and we're going to have to talk quickly because it's only half an hour.

But as a woman, I've often said to people, if I was doing the work I was doing as a man,

I would probably be given like red carpet wherever I went and people would really treat me

in a very different way. No one would ask me how I manage with juggling three children and a husband

who works abroad a lot. It wouldn't come into the conversation.

Yeah.

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