About this episode

Dr. Mayoni Gooneratne discusses the critical impact of perimenopause on women's health.

What if the most dangerous metabolic inflection point in a woman's entire life is the one we've been taught to simply endure? In this episode of Health Longevity Secrets, Robert Lufkin MD sits down with Dr. Mayoni Gooneratne — a London-trained former NHS colorectal and pelvic floor surgeon, now the founder of Human Health and vice-chair of the British College of Functional Medicine. Dr. Mayoni walks us through why she walked away from the operating theater and how perimenopause — not menopau...

People in this episode

Host: Robert Lufkin MD

Guest: Dr. Mayoni Gooneratne

Topics covered

• perimenopause
• women's health
• metabolic inflection points
• functional medicine
• surgery
• healthcare

Keywords

• perimenopause
• women's health
• metabolic health
• functional medicine
• surgery
• healthcare

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: British College of Functional Medicine, Human Health, NHS

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