{"id":144069,"date":"2025-10-25T05:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/144069\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T05:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:06:09","slug":"menopause-the-davina-mccall-effect-and-why-more-women-are-seeking-unnecessary-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/144069\/","title":{"rendered":"Menopause: The \u2018Davina McCall effect\u2019 and\u00a0why more\u00a0women are seeking unnecessary treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFear of missing out is fuelling a demand for remedies that many women don&#8217;t need for something doctors say is often just part of getting older\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hormones are in vogue: Celebrities like Davina McCall talking about menopause has lead to a surge in public conversation and demand for treatments. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tyImages_2183353101.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Hormones are in vogue: Celebrities like Davina McCall talking about menopause has lead to a surge in public conversation and demand for treatments. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Menopause has finally come into the open, with no small thanks to Joe Duffy and a raft of workplace menopause-specific policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But some medics say all that has been accomplished is \u201cpathologising\u201d what is simply a normal part of getting older, with patients demanding hormone replacement therapy (HRT) whether or not they have symptoms like hot flushes, mood swings and vaginal dryness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fear of missing out is fuelling a demand for remedies that many women don&#8217;t need for something doctors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[18,135,19,17,19618,2519],"class_list":{"0":"post-144069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-menopause","13":"tag-review-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115433071305879251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}