Laura Dowling

Something I hear all the time from women in their 40s and 50s is that they feel like their care is all over the place.

One appointment for hormones, another for bone health, another for intimate health, and none of it is really joined up.

That is exactly why I love BlackRock Health and what they have done in their Women's Health Centre.

It is a full 360 approach to midlife health, bringing together consultants, specialist nurses and allied health experts all in one place.

It's a small, focused team, which means your care feels personal and coordinated.

And what really stands out is how seamless it is.

You can have your consultations, diagnostics and even procedures organised in a really joined up way.

sometimes on the same day and it's not just about treating symptoms they look at the full picture your heart breast brain and bone health as well as your overall well-being with support from physio nutrition and psychology too this is how women's health care should be preventative joined up and centered around you if you are in that state of life and want to feel properly supported it is definitely worth looking into the women's health center at blackrock health

Okay, oh, did it?

So when you say put into remission through healthy diet and exercise, you reversed it?

Really?

Well, it's not great for little girls.

It's not it's not teaching them that.

Yeah, I talk a lot about this too, and I hear that whole invisible conversation going around.

And is it not, though, to do with the fact that once our fertile years are over, it's almost like we're dismissed as not being as attractive as we used to be, because we're not fertile.

And, you know, men aren't whistling at us in the streets that they used to, as if they ever did.

The whole thing is around our looks and our attractiveness and our reproductive capabilities.

Like, we don't see big billboards with women... With blind faces and grey hair.

Grey hair.

all the wobbles that come with our bodies as we get older either and you know there are very few women even say in the media or in film that are celebrated Helen Mirren springs to mind she's exceptionally beautiful Judy Dench Judy Dench is herself it's just like but