Kate Muir
Novelist and Journalist at Freelance
Everything You Need to Know About the Pill and Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause books and documentaries. Talks: https://t.co/ENaleGSITr
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Oct 26, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Kate Muir
Imagine a room full of women. Imagine half of them breaking a bone. What will it be? Hip? Spine? Wrist? Neck? Imagine the plaster casts, the metal screws, the pain, the immobility, the grief – a third of those who break a hip will die within a year, according to the NHS. The Royal Osteoporosis Society says one in two women over 50 in the UK will get a fracture due to osteoporosis. And that just doesn’t need to happen.
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Jul 25, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Kate Muir
Testosterone for menopausal women has been all over the news recently as “prescriptions soar” but in fact only a tiny number — about 8,000 out of the 13 million women of menopausal age in the UK — are prescribed testosterone as part of NHS hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Should it be more? Women and doctors are waking up to the fact that testosterone has a positive effect on our health — not just in terms of libido, but much more.
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May 10, 2024 |
msn.com | Kate Muir
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May 10, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Kate Muir
Menopause was previously seen as a source of ageist shame, an unexploded bomb, or a suspicious parcel. But it is a natural phase which marks the end of childbearing years and, at last, we have the science and the knowledge to resolve a lot of the surrounding mental and physical health issues. Now is the time to embrace menopause, rather than fear it, and tackle the changes holistically.
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May 4, 2024 |
glamourmagazine.co.uk | Kate Muir
We put these mini hormone bombs into our bodies for decades, and we don't know a smidgen of the science behind them – and that’s why women now need to be armed with more information about how hormones work in every form of contraception, from the pill to the patch, coil, injection and implant. Women (and some non-binary and trans people) have instinctively known for years that hormonal contraception affects their mood and sex drive, but that's mostly been dismissed, and we've been gaslighted.
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