Dr. Louise Newson

then you can join the dots and think, well, without those hormones, we're going to have more inflammation.

We'll have less clear nerve pathways.

The neurons won't fire so quickly.

So of course it's going to slow down our brain.

Of course our brain isn't going to work as well.

Do you see what I mean?

So I'm sort of coming at it from a...

bottom up rather than just plowing through the noise and saying HRT is really good when it's body identical.

It's like, let's go back and see how it works.

So I've got a big chapter about inflammation because as you know, with all your research for your books, inflammation is crucial for keeping healthy and it has to be a balance.

We need a bit of inflammation to keep us protected, but we don't want too much.

And if we don't have enough, we're exposing ourselves to not just germs, but diseases as well.

So people understand inflammation.

And then there's a lot, like I say, about the brain and how that works.

Because, again, if people can understand basic physiology and how these hormones have their roles.

then it's easier to unpick some of the noise and the mess that's going on out there about whether hormones are good or bad for you.

It's really strange, isn't it?

Because I did a lot of really good basic science in the 1990s when I was at medical school.

And as you know, I took a year off and did a pathology degree.

And I spent most of that year learning about the macrophage.