Petra Bagust

That transition, which can be anywhere from two to 10 years, and then it's the rest of your life.

So at 53, I am looking at hopefully another 20 plus years of my life post-menopausal.

And I am not thinking that I've been designed in such a way that I don't survive and can't make it, and it's going to be terrible from here on in.

And I don't want young women either coming into perimenopause going,

I think conversations like this, the purpose of a conversation like this is to say, can you pay attention to your body?

Can you notice what's happening with your urethra, with your bladder, with your vulva, with your vagina?

And can you, with curiosity and compassion, pay enough attention that you get what you need to support you?

Yes.

Yes.

Awesome, you're going for 40, I'm going for 20 plus.

I need to get on your train.

Okay, so there are, I mean, birth injuries notwithstanding because that is a time when that system is under pressure and prolapses can occur.

And then there can be, I guess, minor or major prolapses.

There are things that we can do to tend to our joints, our skin, the skin you can see, the skin you can't see.

What would you say are the suite of things that we can do to care for this incredible thing we have called skin?

Okay.

The really exciting stuff.

Yes, yes.

So I notice you've bought yourself a drink today.

What's in that?