The Diet Changes That Could Reduce Your Perimenopause Symptoms | Prof. Sarah Berry, ZOE

Yeah, I always say hot flushes and night sweats get all the PR.

Yes, you're

totally

right.

Everybody talks about those, but they are not the biggest symptom.

I really do believe it is, you know, I think women, we are rushing around, we're caring for children, we're caring for elderly parents, we're working, we've got big ass jobs, whatever it may be, we're not paying enough attention to our body and listening to our body and if if the meno scale can help you just pay that little bit of attention it's almost like mindful mindfulness around your body and how you're feeling because I know for me my experience was you know what I'm I'm okay but I'm not optimized like I'm not as good as I was x many years ago at you know I don't know writing writing a deck or writing a document or whatever it might be so you you you know, like deep down, you do kind of know how you're feeling.

The other thing I love about the Menno Scale is, you know, as we started the podcast talking about the imbalance in research, this is an amazing way, like everybody listening, if you want to be part of community science, or I think Zoe has this great citizen science, citizen research, I don't know, whatever we call it.

But if you want to be part of research, then this Menno Scale is great because it's going to contribute to more information, more knowledge, so that we can then educate and feed back to everybody on women's health in general.

I think that's really empowering for people.

Yeah, and this is what we're trying to do with all of our research at Zoe is it's what we call bi-directional.

So people become community scientists.

When you share your data, if you consent to do so with the Menner scale, then it shares the data back with me and my research team.

So I can learn, for example, we've had 133 different countries completing this i can start to see if there's differences between different countries how it differs according to age how it differs according to hrt you know and it's by collecting this vast amount of data that we can really learn now what the user gets back is they get back their score they get back information about their their main symptoms where they fit compared to population averages And it's really important that we do that kind of bi-directional process that we can learn as scientists and individuals can learn as well about themselves.

So yeah, Menoscale is a great example of the community science work that we're doing.

There is a separate consent because obviously we have to be very careful about sharing data.

But if you consent to share your data with researchers, it's basically sharing with me and my team so that we can learn.

We are sharing our data with Professor Sarah Berry.

I feel like we are in very safe hands if it's with you, Sarah.

And it's all

anonymized.

It's really important to say everything's anonymized.

So we handle data very carefully.

So let's dig in a little bit to what you have learned.