Name: Women's Health: Breaking the Taboos
Released: 2022-08-09T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Cherry Healey

Available on Channel 5

Cherry Healey uncovers the secrets surrounding women's health and explores some of the biggest issues out there, from severe period pains to incontinence, and from hair loss to the menopause, conditions that are often kept hidden.

Documentary · 2022 · 55 min

Starring Cherry Healey

Director Ashley Golder , Beatrice Ní Bhroin

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Cherry discovers the impact of chronically heavy periods and two shockingly common conditions, endometriosis and fibroids. Journalist and presenter Kate Thornton opens up about her experience of the perimenopause.

45 min · 9 Aug 2022
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Cherry meets two women tackling different symptoms of the menopause, joining Jo as she undergoes hormone replacement therapy,and Susannah as she tries a new treatment for vulvovaginal atrophy.

44 min · 10 Aug 2022
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Cherry meets two women seeking treatment after damage to their bodies caused by pregnancy and birth. Gillian is 40 years on from the birth of her children and needs an urgent operation for her organ prolapse.

45 min · 11 Aug 2022
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

Cherry Healey meets two women,Emily and Elizabeth, as they face the trauma of female pattern baldness and hair loss, and joins Elizabeth as she undergoes a new kind of treatment to reverse it.

44 min · 12 Aug 2022