dr louise newson, a real pleasure having you on the show. and louise, can wejust start with this?is the menopause and does it impact women differently? if you break down the word menopause, meno is menstrual cycle, so women's periods pause is stop. what's really weird about it is it actually for medical definition, you have to be a year without your period. there's nothing else in medicine that i have to wait a year before making a diagnosis. what it means is that a woman's ovaries aren't working. they're either because we've got older and they stop working because we run out of eggs. the hormones associated with egg production decline or women might have their ovaries removed for an operation, for example. the loss of hormones or the reduction in hormone levels can cause to symptoms because these hormones, oestrogen, testosterone, progesterone affect every single cell in our body. so many women experience symptoms which can last for a few months or a few years. well, you mentioned symptoms, louisa. just what sort of symptoms are we talking about? it really varies. so a lot of wom

dr louise newson says there's little evidence that many of the supplements will make any difference at with any of these companies and don't do any paid work with farmer without transparency. i read somewhere it's $120 billion a year spent on menopausal products. if i was a businessperson if 1.2 billion women worldwide are menopausal hot will them to buy that question mark when i was struggling and unable to get treatment from the nhs i would've spent lots of money because it would've been cheaper than a divorce and if i could keep myjob and income. people are desperate to feel better. the advertising on some of the product is great but they also try to push people away from each artsy and it worries me because there's no real surety that some of the supplements would have. the money being spent on this is just awful, actually. and that's it for this edition of asia business report. thanks for watching. bringing you different stories from across the uk. this meeting injuly was supposed to be an opportunity for birmingham city council to tell residents about their plans for a £2 billion

dr louise newson has been speaking to aaron heslehurst for this week's talking business weekly programmeld him it's "just awful" how much money is being spent by women who are just desperate to feel better. i really worry about it. so, i mean, i don't work with any of these companies at all and i don't do any paid work with pharma, just for complete transparency. i read somewhere the other day that it is $120 billion a year is spent on menopause—related products, but, you know, if i was a sassy businessperson thinking, "well, it is 1.2 billion women worldwide are menopausal. "how are we going to get them to buy some supplements orface "cream or shampoo?" and actually when i was struggling and was unable to receive treatment from the nhs, i would have spent a lot of money on anything to help me because it would have been cheaper than a divorce, if it meant that i could keep my job and my income... you know, people are very desperate to feel better. the advertising on some of these products is great. they also try and push people away from hrt and it really worries me because there is no e

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