193 - Taking control of your menopause with Dorothy Byrne
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
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Is There a Gender Inequality?
I was taught in medical school that women are protected from heart disease until they reach 50 and after that time they are less protected which is obviously so obvious now thinking back it's about hormones but no one mentioned the word estrogen or hormones. I think medicine and science have always had a misogyny of their own from women being expected to put up with all sorts of pain and discomfort right through to after they go through the menopause you see that great misogyny. A lot of that has been about keeping women ignorant, if you were to write the history of misogyny in medicine it would be in several volumes. The way that the medical establishment has treated theMenopause is just a little part of
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