Dr. Louise Newson

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9,319 appearances 45 recordings 5 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 10 Sep

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The Dr Louise Newson Podcast · 101 – Luteal Uglies - what does this mean? · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

I need to be thinking about a hormone treatment as well as any other treatment you might be giving me.

because first-line treatment should be hormones because we can correct the hormonal imbalance and really improve symptoms in women.

So when we talk about hormones, I can't reiterate enough.

I really want to be clear that we should be giving hormones.

We should be prescribing light for light.

If someone had a deficiency of vitamin D, I wouldn't say to them, take iron, take another vitamin.

I would say take vitamin D.

If someone has a hormonal imbalance, especially progesterone, estradiol, throughout their cycle, so in the endothelial phase, they're having symptoms due to the hormonal changes, then I give the actual hormones back.

And we're very lucky because we can prescribe the natural bioidentical progesterone and estradiol.

So when I say bioidentical, all I mean is it's the same chemical structure as our own hormone.

So when it goes into our body, our body recognizes it as its own hormone and starts to utilize it throughout the body, in every cell, every tissue, every organ in the body, in the way that they would if we had our normal levels of hormones in our body.

And so then the brain starts to work better, the tissues work better, the cells work better, our mitochondria work better, our inflammation is reduced.

And so it can really make a huge difference.

Medicine is an art as well as a science.

So obviously we follow the science, but the art form is individualizing care.

So usually with women with PMS or PMDD or the so-called luteal uglies, we need to be thinking about the right balance of hormones.

Often, I'll start with progesterone.

Women are still having hormones if they're having periods because they need to have those hormones for periods to occur.

But the levels and the balance of those hormones are usually not right because they're getting symptoms.

So we often prescribe progesterone.

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