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 on my podcast today, I'm delighted to introduce to you Matt Roberts, who some of you

will know and some of you might not. I've actually stalked him from afar for many years actually, watching him a long time ago,

actually, when personal trainers weren't quite such a thing, looking at him in various media

sort of newspapers showing how to do very simple exercises, making it look very simple,

but very effective as well. And I was very

honoured to be introduced to him recently at a longevity event. And so now I've hoiked him

onto my podcast. So it's a very exciting day for me. So welcome, Matt. Thanks for coming today.

Well, thank you. I mean, it's a pleasure to be on. And likewise, I've kind of watched all the work you've been doing from distance. And it's an area that has a natural follow on with what I do when increasing the hormone health overall. This kind of crossover between what the fitness and the health and training community do or should be doing is sort of quasi

medicals more crossover more understanding. Certainly I've been doing this a long time. I've been

doing this for nine and 30 years. I'm 51 years old. Now I'm my first club when I was 22 years old.

And from day one, it was always about data. And there wasn't much data you could

gather at that point in time. But it was very much in my core thinking that it needs to be that

we could analyze individuals in a really precise way. And I always had teams of doctors,

medics that we consulted with and dietitians and less so hormones, especially at Ray start, race start to say it was much more of a thing

in the last maybe 15, 20 years. We became able to actually really use the data and understanding

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