{"id":794,"date":"2021-09-28T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T09:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/?post_type=menopauselibrary&#038;p=794"},"modified":"2025-03-04T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T16:17:35","slug":"080-how-my-work-was-affected-by-the-menopause-kate-halfpenny-dr-louise-newson","status":"publish","type":"menopauselibrary","link":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/menopause-library\/080-how-my-work-was-affected-by-the-menopause-kate-halfpenny-dr-louise-newson\/","title":{"rendered":"How my work was affected by the menopause &#8211; Kate Halfpenny and Dr Louise Newson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"080 &quot;How My Work Was Affected by the Menopause&quot; - Kate Halfpenny &amp; Dr Louise Newson\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=m2azf-f69d28-pb&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;btn-skin=7&amp;multiple_size=315&amp;square_size=300&amp;order=episodic&amp;filter=all&amp;limit=10&amp;season=all&amp;tag=all\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, Dr Louise Newson talks to Kate Halfpenny, who was a celebrity stylist and designer for over 20 years. Kate now has a globally successful, British-made bridal brand,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.halfpennylondon.com\/\">Halfpenny London<\/a>, which she launched in early 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kate had her first and only child, Sylvester, at 40 and talks to Dr Newson about how her perimenopausal symptoms started a year or two after that. Now 45 and 6 months into her body identical HRT regime from Dr Newson and Newson Health, she has started to feel like the powerhouse she once was, managing to keep a few balls in the air again and not struggling as much to communicate and be the business woman\/mother\/wife\/friend she knew she could be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kate Halfpenny&#8217;s three Take Home Tips and signs that you may have low hormone levels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you&#8217;re experiencing unexplained fatigue even after a good night&#8217;s sleep then it may be down to your hormones.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another sign can be a lack of mental clarity, if you are struggling to multitask or concentrate on more than one thing at once.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Loss of libido &#8211; this is also a common symptom of the perimenopause and menopause.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Dr Louise Newson talks to Kate Halfpenny, who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6778,"template":"","subject":[26,41,25,57],"content-type":[17],"library-format":[14],"library-author":[],"class_list":["post-794","menopauselibrary","type-menopauselibrary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-hrt","subject-perimenopause","subject-wellbeing","subject-work-life","content-type-podcast","library-format-listen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/menopauselibrary\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/menopauselibrary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/menopauselibrary"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"library-format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library-format?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"library-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library-author?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}