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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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Episode 7 Dr Heather Massey A dip into nature; swimming outdoors
Episode 7 Dr Heather Massey A dip into nature; swimming outdoors
Episode 7 Dr Heather Massey A dip into nature; swimming outdoors
Episode 8 – 26 April

Dr Heather Massey:
A dip into nature; swimming outdoors

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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Heather is a senior lecturer within the School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science. She has been a member of the Extreme Environments Laboratory since 2007 where she completed a PhD in the area of Environmental Cross-adaptation in Humans. Prior to that she worked at the Institute of Naval Medicine within the Environmental Medicine Unit for six years. 

Heather’s research interests are in the area of human exposure to heat, cold and altitude and how we can prepare and mitigate the effects of these environments. More recently, she has become interested in establishing if these extreme environments have any benefits to health and wellbeing. She has published 50 research papers and co-authored two book chapters. She is a trustee of Swim the Wright and sits on the medical board of the Ectodermal Dysplasia Society.

As well as her teaching and research, Heather provides advice and support to a range of companies, charities and the media on questions associated with her research. In her spare time Heather is a keen open water swimmer having successfully completed a solo crossing of the English Channel, numerous other open water swims including relay swims round Jersey, Jersey to France, round the Isle of Wight as well as representing GB in the World Ice Swimming Championships 1k event in 2017. 

In this episode, Heather tells us about how she started cold water swimming. She gives important advice for anyone who is thinking of taking up cold water swimming, and for those of us already doing it. She discusses what research has been done into cold water swimming and general health, pregnancy, menstrual and menopause symptoms. She will tell us her views about cold showers and sitting in an ice bath in our garden.  Heather will share her experience of swimming the channel which ended successfully but with only seals to celebrate her arrival in France. We also discuss team sports and how we might want to revisit these.

 

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