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Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper
Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper

Your Fertile Years

When Joyce was in her twenties she started working in the field of fertility and she often had conversations with friends about their bodies and their fertility.  At this time she read ‘Ourbody, ourselves’ and felt it was a book that every woman should read…

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Your Joyful Years

In Your Joyful Years, Professor Joyce Harper provides an empowering, evidence-based guide to thriving beyond 50. Moving past the menopause, this book reframes later life as a vibrant new beginning—a time to rediscover purpose and prioritise self-care. Combining 40 years of scientific expertise with the candid wisdom of 50 inspiring women, Professor Harper offers a reassuring roadmap to health, happiness, and living authentically. This is the essential second book in her life-stage trilogy, proving that your best years are still to come.

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Season 4 / Episode 2 – 28 January

Dr Lauren Colenso-Semple: Sifting through social media misinformation about our health

In this podcast Professor Joyce Harper will be interviewing guests to discuss all things health related and debunking some of the many myths around our health.

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Dr. Lauren Colenso-Semple is a researcher and science communicator specializing in female physiology, exercise, and nutrition, and a former seasoned fitness professional with extensive hands-on experience helping hundreds of women in all stages of life. She is a co-owner of the MASS Research Review, which helps bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and practical fitness strategies for coaches and trainers. Lauren works to dismantle fitness and nutrition myths perpetuated without a scientific basis by fact checking claims made by online influencers.

Lauren’s scientific expertise and real-world experience as a fitness professional helps practitioners provide evidence-based recommendations to women in all stages of life.

If you use social media for any of your health advice, this is an episode you need to hear. Joyce and Lauren explore how health and fitness misinformation spreads online — and why, once it takes hold, it can be surprisingly hard to “unlearn”. They break down how to judge the quality of evidence, including the differences between mechanistic studies, observational research and human clinical trials, and why correlation is not the same as causation.

They also tackle some of the major myths Lauren works hard to debunk: fasted training, protein obsession, weighted vests, grip strength, collagen and creatine hype, vibration plates, and the way supplements are often marketed with exaggerated claims. Throughout, Lauren explains what the evidence does (and does not) support — and why mastering the basics matters far more than chasing the latest trend.

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