It’s Women’s Health Week and endocrinologist, Dr Megan Ogilvie is with us and flipping the script on menopause. Megan draws from other cultures and looks at menopause through a positive lens. A must-listen for all women that will leave you feeling aspired!

We cover:

• What is menopause? And what is “normal” for women?
• How do you think women should view this time?
• What does this time really mean?
• Menopause myths
• Menopause and belly fat, why?

One-liners you don’t want to miss:

“In the 1800s life expectancy was about 45-50 years, we all died of our postpartum haemorrhage having our eighth baby. In 2024, life expectancy for women is about 85 so we can all expect very reasonably to live about 1/3 of our lifetimes in our postmenopausal years.”

“Increasingly, science is showing us that this midlife time that is often the menopausal time for women, is a real window of opportunity to shape their health and wellbeing and therefore quality of life over their postmenopausal years.”

“All of this talk around menopause which is so vast now is mostly good, but it’s a very negative Westernised narrative out there at the moment. It’s all about you’ll get this symptom, this symptom and this symptom then you get old and you become invisible. All tied up with Western ideas of ageing.”

References

https://www.menopause.org.au/health-info
https://erhassociates.co.nz/curated-resources