Women's Health: Breaking the Taboos

Women's Health: Breaking the Taboos

Documentary 2022

Available on My5

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

Starring Cherry Healey

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 15
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 U
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 18
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 U

Cherry Healey

Host
Ashley Golder

Director
Beatrice Ní Bhroin

Director
Ashley Golder

Producer
Beatrice Ní Bhroin

Producer

About

Women's Health: Breaking the Taboos

DOCUMENTARY

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.

Information

Studio: Channel 5
Released: 2022

Languages

Subtitles: English (United Kingdom)