Fearne Cotton

So if you were to go to the doctor and they took their symptoms seriously and they said, right, we're going to prescribe you HRT, but it was the synthetic version.

Do you have the autonomy at your local GP to say, I want body identical?

And you, you know, not only are you trying to get this information out there and debunk, you know, myths that are putting women off getting the help that they need.

You genuinely want to help women, want to stop the suffering of women in general.

You personally have had a lot of backlash and had to...

And I can't even imagine how that's felt.

When you're passionate about something and you've spent your life's work is studying this, to be constantly pushing against that must be personally exhausting.

It's horrible.

Why do you think that is?

Just because you're wanting to bust the myths?

Is that why you've been occasionally called controversial or you've had shit thrown your way?

Yeah.

You want to do things differently and the medical world is a bit stuck in time.

Mutual respect for both of you.

Yeah, I mean, horrific for you.

Horrific.

But also, like you say, for all the women that you desperately want to help.

And you say in the book, you don't want menopause, perimenopause to just be seen as a gynecological issue.

Because as you stated a moment ago, it's affecting literally every part of us physically and mentally.

And maybe we're being reductive in terms of this conversation.