Will My Ethnicity Impact My Menopause Experience? – With Fitness Expert Lavina Mehta

How does your genetic, social and racial heritage affect your menopause?

And how can you future proof your body right now?

🤝 Get your own personalised menopause support from Dr Naomi Potter and her team: https://www.menopausecare.co.uk/what-to-expect-ihih

In today’s episode of ‘Is It Hot In Here?’ Dr. Naomi Potter is joined by Lavina Mehta MBE, who shares her deeply personal and compelling story about embracing menopause in the face of it being a “taboo subject” socially and culturally. She tells how making her husband do an IG Live about what she was experiencing saved many marriages. And how, as an award-winning personal trainer and wellness coach, she has developed multiple one-minute tricks to future proof her body and brain during mid-life.

Join Naomi and Lavina as they play with armchair exercise and deep-dive into the ways our cultures can affect our experiences.

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Chapters

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:01:30 South Asians go through menopause 5-6 years earlier
• 00:02:36 Menopause and fitness
• 00:03:08 Anxiety and perimenopause
• 00:03:30 Brain fog
• 00:06:51 Women's health being taboo
• 00:08:19 South Asian experience of menopause
• 00:10:10 Involving men in the menopause conversation
• 00:11:38 A fear of judgement within Lavina's culture
• 00:13:45 "We need trust"
• 00:14:59 Lavina's journey to becoming a personal trainer
• 00:18:24 Exercise snacking
• 00:19:54 Making exercise accessible
• 00:20:52 You only need 11 minutes of exercise
• 00:22:22 We're all sitting for too long
• 00:23:41 How to future proof your body
• 00:24:27 Lowering stress levels
• 00:25:07 Exercise vs HRT
• 00:25:31 Strength training is the answer (start now)
• 00:26:56 Resetting your nervous system
• 00:27:35 Lavina's experience on HRT
• 00:31:00 Talking to your mum about menopause
• 00:32:18 Entering menopause
• 00:34:37 Lavina is having a menopause party!
• 00:35:35 Periods being a "shameful thing"
• 00:36:37 Will my menopause symptoms go away?
• 00:38:14 Dealing with hot flushes
• 00:39:59 Exercises for joint pain
• 00:43:03 Exercises for back, neck and shoulder pain
• 00:44:41 Outro