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Dr. Sarah Berry

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Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

It's unlikely probably for most people to have the same level of impact on your quality of life as just not sleeping due to menopause. So that's why we wanted to specifically look at what's the overall impact it has on your quality of life. So the Menoscale calculator gives you a score out of 100. It's available online. It's free to access for everyone.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

It's unlikely probably for most people to have the same level of impact on your quality of life as just not sleeping due to menopause. So that's why we wanted to specifically look at what's the overall impact it has on your quality of life. So the Menoscale calculator gives you a score out of 100. It's available online. It's free to access for everyone.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

It's unlikely probably for most people to have the same level of impact on your quality of life as just not sleeping due to menopause. So that's why we wanted to specifically look at what's the overall impact it has on your quality of life. So the Menoscale calculator gives you a score out of 100. It's available online. It's free to access for everyone.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

And what's really important is it allows you to track your symptoms. And I think this is key because there's nothing out there that people can quickly access that returns a number that allows them to track their symptoms. And so, again, you know, when I think back to my own experience, a couple of years ago, when I started on the perimenopausal transition, I went to see my family doctor.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

And what's really important is it allows you to track your symptoms. And I think this is key because there's nothing out there that people can quickly access that returns a number that allows them to track their symptoms. And so, again, you know, when I think back to my own experience, a couple of years ago, when I started on the perimenopausal transition, I went to see my family doctor.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

And what's really important is it allows you to track your symptoms. And I think this is key because there's nothing out there that people can quickly access that returns a number that allows them to track their symptoms. And so, again, you know, when I think back to my own experience, a couple of years ago, when I started on the perimenopausal transition, I went to see my family doctor.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

And they said, right, before you start taking HRT, track your symptoms, then we'll start you on HRT, then you track your symptoms. There was no way of tracking it. They told me I could go and look at this green scale, which asks me all of these, what I think using these outdated language. On a piece of paper, I was having to write down how I was feeling.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

And they said, right, before you start taking HRT, track your symptoms, then we'll start you on HRT, then you track your symptoms. There was no way of tracking it. They told me I could go and look at this green scale, which asks me all of these, what I think using these outdated language. On a piece of paper, I was having to write down how I was feeling.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

And they said, right, before you start taking HRT, track your symptoms, then we'll start you on HRT, then you track your symptoms. There was no way of tracking it. They told me I could go and look at this green scale, which asks me all of these, what I think using these outdated language. On a piece of paper, I was having to write down how I was feeling.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

The bit paper got lost in my kid's homework or something or somewhere at some point. And so the purpose of this is to create something that allows women to track, allows women to track in a consistent way by asking the same questions and as frequently as they want to. So what it means is it enables women to be able to work out what works for them.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

The bit paper got lost in my kid's homework or something or somewhere at some point. And so the purpose of this is to create something that allows women to track, allows women to track in a consistent way by asking the same questions and as frequently as they want to. So what it means is it enables women to be able to work out what works for them.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

The bit paper got lost in my kid's homework or something or somewhere at some point. And so the purpose of this is to create something that allows women to track, allows women to track in a consistent way by asking the same questions and as frequently as they want to. So what it means is it enables women to be able to work out what works for them.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

So if they're put on HRT, so hormone replacement therapy, they contract to say, okay, is it helping? If they decide to make a dietary change, What's helping? Is it helping? How much is it helping? And because they're getting this score out of 100, what we also play back to individuals is how their score compares to an average person of their age, and depending on whether they're on HRT or not.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

So if they're put on HRT, so hormone replacement therapy, they contract to say, okay, is it helping? If they decide to make a dietary change, What's helping? Is it helping? How much is it helping? And because they're getting this score out of 100, what we also play back to individuals is how their score compares to an average person of their age, and depending on whether they're on HRT or not.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

So if they're put on HRT, so hormone replacement therapy, they contract to say, okay, is it helping? If they decide to make a dietary change, What's helping? Is it helping? How much is it helping? And because they're getting this score out of 100, what we also play back to individuals is how their score compares to an average person of their age, and depending on whether they're on HRT or not.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

And then we also play back other information about what their most common symptoms are and how that compares to the general population. So by completing this Menos scale, women can be empowered to understand how menopause is impacting them and if any changes they're making are helping.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

And then we also play back other information about what their most common symptoms are and how that compares to the general population. So by completing this Menos scale, women can be empowered to understand how menopause is impacting them and if any changes they're making are helping.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

And then we also play back other information about what their most common symptoms are and how that compares to the general population. So by completing this Menos scale, women can be empowered to understand how menopause is impacting them and if any changes they're making are helping.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

There's also a consent box to tick when they do it to say that if they're happy to, they can share the data back with scientists, i.e. me and my team. So there's a kind of double benefit that they also become a community scientist because they share their data back with us, which enables us

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Women Struggle with Insomnia, Weight Gain, and Debilitating Symptoms During Perimenopause and Menopause and What to Do About It with Dr. Sarah Berry

There's also a consent box to tick when they do it to say that if they're happy to, they can share the data back with scientists, i.e. me and my team. So there's a kind of double benefit that they also become a community scientist because they share their data back with us, which enables us