Davina McCall, 55, reveals HRT brings her ‘midlife joy’ amid her battle with menopause

Davina McCall has long been open about her experience with menopause in an attempt to help other women.

And on Tuesday, the 55-year-old TV presenter appeared in a new clip while discussing the benefits of HRT, or hormone replacement therapy.

“HRT has completely changed my life,” Davina said, saying she hopes to “destigmatize” the treatment.

‘It has completely changed my life!’ Davina McCall, 55, revealed in a new video this week that HRT gives her ‘midlife joy’ amid her battle with menopause

‘What brings me midlife joy, well I can tell you what helps me along the way. HRT has completely changed my life. It’s not for everyone,’ Davina began.

“But it’s really helped me a lot and one of my missions when I started my menopausal journey was to destigmatize HRT and reframe the way people view it.”

“The sooner you take it, the more benefits you’ll get, it can revolutionize your relationships, your sleep, it can really help a lot and that’s my Christmas cheer,” he concluded.

“But it’s really helped me a lot and one of my missions when I started my menopausal journey was to destigmatize HRT and reframe the way people view it,” she said.

Menopause marks the end of a woman’s fertile life when periods stop.

Typically, around age 51, the ovaries stop producing estrogen, as well as progesterone and testosterone, and no longer release an egg each month.

These hormones have a protective effect on the heart and bones, as well as on the skin and other tissues.

Common symptoms include hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness that causes discomfort during intercourse, disturbed sleep, decreased sexual desire, memory and concentration problems, and mood swings.

HRT replaces the body’s declining hormones to relieve these symptoms. It is usually a combination of estrogen and progesterone taken as a daily tablet, but it can also be taken as patches, gels, sprays, pessaries, and implants.

For those women who no longer have a womb, only estrogen is needed because progesterone protects the lining of the womb from thickening and potentially cancerous.

Symptoms: Davina recently told The Sun about her experience with menopause, saying she suffered extreme memory loss. “She was with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and couldn’t remember her name,” she said.

Her fight: Davina vowed to ‘fight as long as she can’ for women to receive Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and proper menopause care amid a shortage problem in the UK.

Davina recently said Sun about her experience with menopause and said she suffered extreme memory loss.

“I was with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and I couldn’t remember his name,” he said.

“I thought I was going to have to quit my job, and I love my job.”

She added that she thought she was “going crazy.”

‘I was at a stage where I thought I really knew how to do this job and then I thought ‘you’re going to take it away from me’.

Davina said she wished she had the courage to talk to her production team about her memory loss due to menopause, but she was too “embarrassed”.

Now, she’s talking about her experience with menopause to help end the stigma and help others.

She added that she found the night sweats “debilitating,” but soon found relief through hormone replacement therapy, or HRT.

Davina has vowed to “fight as long as she can” for women to receive Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and proper menopause care amid a shortage problem in the UK.