Laura Dowling

So the amount of women that have gone through issues, the amount of women that even now say that would have missed out on HRT because of the WHI study that linked HRT to breast cancer.

There's women in their 60s and 70s.

that, okay, so they're delighted that the menopause conversation is happening now because it will help their daughters, but they feel that they've missed the boat.

Absolutely, yeah.

We need to have conversations about what happens to women's bodies throughout their lifetime in secondary school so girls are aware of what's going to happen.

It has to be part of, even, I did five years of study in pharmacy and we did one hour on menopause in five years and that was a 40-hour lecture in lab week.

My doctor colleagues would be the same.

There was no menopause per se module.

They would have done one hour maybe and that would have been it.

Mm-hmm.

Now that is changing.

We are upskilling and now doctors are learning more about it and I've spoken to pharmacy students and they're learning much more about menopause and that now because we recognise it as it isn't just this stage in a woman's life that she gets through.

It's something that women will live a third of their lives in post-menopause.

So it is changing, but yes, I do feel for that lost generation of women that are now in their 60s, 70s, 80s, you know, even their bone health and that has been significantly affected by the fact that they may not have been put on HRT at an earlier age.

I know.

Well, I don't think that it's fair for you to say that you, you know, it's your fault.

So, because women, I find, don't even understand.

I'm a little embarrassed to admit that, actually.

Women don't even understand their bodies.

So how can their male partners?