Dr Claire & Caroline talk to Dr Claudia Welch, author of Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness Through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine and Western Science and the book, How the Art of Medicine Makes the Science More Effective: Becoming the Medicine We Practice (How the Art of Medicine Makes Effective Physicians) She is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, an Ayurvedic practitioner and international speaker. Dr. Welch explores how ideas in Eastern medicine apply to women’s health, and

today’s reality in general.

www.drclaudiawelch.com

Twitter & Instagram & Facebook @drclaudiawelch

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Dr Claire & Caroline talk to Lara Briden Naturopathic doctor and author of Hormone Repair Manual about histamine intolerance, iodine, insulin resistance, cutting out alcohol and acceptance.

Lara Briden is a naturopathic doctor and author of the bestselling books Period Repair Manual and Hormone Repair Manual. She has more than 20 years’ experience in women’s health and currently has consulting rooms in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she treats women with PCOS, PMS, endometriosis, perimenopause, and many other hormone- and period-related health problems.

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Kathy has extensive clinical expertise as a Menopause Specialist, regularly seeing and advising women on all issues relating to menopausal health. An Independent Prescriber with a master’s degree in Community Gynaecology and Reproductive Healthcare, Kathy is immediate past Chair of the British Menopause Society, the professional society for healthcare practitioners. Director of 'the menopause course' an educational initiative for nurses, designing and running study days, courses and events relating to menopause. Published author in nursing and lay press.

For women, Kathy offers private consultations at a Southwest London clinic and workplace sessions by invitation to improve understanding of the effects of menopause on home and work and is the Director of menopause services at www.peppy.health

Kathy is a regular speaker to medics, nurses, and other health professionals as well as at women's events and is a contributor to books and magazines. She is the author of 'Menopause: The One Stop Guide', a book for women, which aims to help women to make informed decisions about all aspects of menopausal health.

www.kathyabernethy.com

www.kalmsrange.com

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Corinna is the London Coordinator for Daisy Network, the only charity supporting women with POI (premature ovarian insufficiency or premature menopause) in the UK and internationally. She is also the Co-Founder of CocoRio creative child care, a child care agency that matches fully vetted creatives (musicians, actors, dancers etc.) with families for smart child care services.

She grew up in Italy and was a child singer from the age of 5. As she started entering puberty her development suddenly stopped and since the age of ten she suffered with many symptoms that doctors did not connect to menopause. At the age of 15 after never having had a period naturally, she was diagnosed with idiopathic POI.

www.daisynetwork.org

www.cocorio.co.uk

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Dr Claire & Caroline talk to Dr Ben Esdaile a prominent London dermatologist about dry skin, ageing, rosacea, acne, dry/brittle nails and hair loss. As oestrogen fluctuates and eventually drops these are potentially symptoms of perimenopause and post menopause

Dr Esdaile undertook his medical training at Imperial College London and qualified with distinction in Medicine and Surgery. He pursued and completed his specialist training in dermatology in Oxford. He has a full-time NHS Consultant post at the Whittington Hospital in North London and is involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

He has published in multiple peer-review journals and has won an NHS clinical excellence award. He also works privately at the Highgate Hospital, Chase Lodge Hospital and at Skin 55 on Harley Street.

https://drbenesdaile.co.uk/

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Dani Binnington is a wellbeing expert, yoga teacher and founder of Healthy Whole Me. Her holistic approach to her wellbeing started after her breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 33. Dani to found herself in a surgically onset menopause by the time she turned 40. Dani shares her passion of a multi-sided approach to wellbeing openly, she writes articles for national newspapers and magazines and has most recently become more involved in sharing an understanding for the peri-menopause and menopause.

 www.healthywholeme.com 

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Dr Claire & Caroline talk to Noelle Harrison, Novelist, Yoga Teacher & Journaling Expert on how journaling can support your menopause journey including the many different form journaling can take.

Noelle is an Irish author who has been writing for nearly thirty years. She has 12 published novels, 5 plays. As a journaling expert she uses journaling to support her writing and teaches journaling sessions and classes. Her new book The Witches of Vardo will be available in early 2023 under the pen name Anya Bergman.

www.noelleharrison.com 

Instagram: @noelle.harrison5 @anyabergmanwriter

Facebook Author Page: @NoelleCBHarrison

Twitter: @NoelleHarrison

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Dr Claire & Caroline speak to Emma Ellice-Flint is a qualified nutritionist, nutritional therapist and experienced chef. She seeks to combine science, research and the deliciousness of food together to help women embrace change. Because of this, you can trust her evidence-based approach and feel confident you’ve found the right person to help guide you through your own nutritional journey in perimenopause & menopause.

https://emmasnutrition.com/

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Dr Helen Douglas is an author, editor and advocate. Helen spent 20 years in academia before a challenging surgical menopause at the age of 41 prompted a change in career. Helen writes on subjects society typically prefers to ignore, including menopause, adverse childhood experiences, and shame. Helen is founder of the Dignified Menopause initiative, co-founder at the Menopause Inclusion Collective, and a trustee and volunteer at Menopause Café. Helen describes herself as a slow runner, medium paced indoor-rower, and she lives in deepest Scotland with a bear called Willoughby. In her spare time she doodles about a little blue hen called Maude

www.menopausecafe.net  

www.dignifiedmenopause.org

https://www.menopausecollective.org

The film we reference: NHS 24 Living With The Menopause https://youtu.be/BbP8Eel5Uu0

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