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The M Word

Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause

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The M Word

By: Philippa Kaye
Narrated by: Philippa Kaye
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About this listen

Written in a positive, uplifting and light-hearted style, with plenty of quotes from real women, The M Word shows you how to not just survive, but thrive through the menopause, letting you remain you.

The menopause does not have to mean the end of your libido, of sex, of work or of feeling like who you used to be. The M Word is a complete one-stop guide to the peri-menopause and menopause, covering everything from understanding symptoms to managing relationships to which treatments really work. Discussing HRT as well as self-help and lifestyle tips, this audiobook will be your companion through the years before, during and after the menopause.

Topics covered include:

  • Hot flushes and other physical symptoms
  • Psychological symptoms
  • Sex, libido and contraception
  • HRT and other treatments
  • Lifestyle changes
  • Health after the menopause
  • And much more!
©2020 Phillippa Kaye (P)2020 W. F. Howes Menopause Relationships Health

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Critic reviews

"Dr Kaye is the mate who’s always got your back, she knows her stuff and tells you exactly how it is." (Sarah Cox)
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Great information and interesting at the same time, would definitely recommend to other women alike.

Very interesting

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This guide is very comprehensive and explained several aspects from puberty to menopause, including the science, various symptoms, most effective treatments and alternative treatments and therapies, as well as nutrition, pelvic floor exercises and sexual health, toys etc. Dr Philippa explained each part well, with evidence of efficacy and even explaining studies and myths too.
This book is useful by to all, but it’s based on U.K. healthcare system, therefore many recommendations don’t really apply to those that live elsewhere.

Very comprehensive

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In the opening of this book, it described the menopause as a "taboo" subject, and something that wasn't really talked about...and I thought, "what a load of rubbish, everyone knows about the menopause".

By the time I was halfway through, I realised that she was right and I definitely had only known a fraction of the "menopause story" beforehand; and I felt angry and cheated...why had no-one ever told me these things before?

I actually cried at a couple of points when I realised that some of the things I was struggling with, and had put down to being inevitable because of age, were in fact menopause related and more importantly, completely treatable.

I'm not the kind of person that would usually say something like this...but this book may have just changed my life! I am so glad to have stumbled across it.

So informative and relatable

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Great listen very informative and well presented. lovely way of explaining. thank thank you. farah

brilliant 👏

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My wife asked me to listen to this. I found
It very informative and balanced. Would recommend

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