Dr. Louise Newson

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

So why decide that gynecologists need to control our hormones?

It really doesn't make any sense to me as a clinician.

But our hormones do help with reproduction.

So we have to have the right balance of those three hormones at the right time in our menstrual cycle for us to ovulate, produce an egg, and then also to get our womb ready for implantation.

So if an egg is fertilized, so if we have sex at the right time, the egg is fertilized by a sperm, then it actually needs to embed into the lining of the womb to start the pregnancy.

So the womb has to be prepared.

So the balance of those three hormones is really important and changes throughout our menstrual cycle.

So really, after our period, we start to have this so-called follicular phase where we have an increase in estradiol.

There is some increase in progesterone.

And then in the middle of our cycle is where we usually ovulate.

And there's a peak of all three hormones actually.

So testosterone peaks as well because testosterone is important in fertility as well.

The second half of our cycle, we have a rise and fall of those hormones as well.

Just before our periods, if we don't become pregnant and don't conceive, then there's a massive decline of those hormone levels.

So we know that the hormones work on every cell, organ, tissue in our body.

So when we have changing levels of those hormones, it can cause a myriad of symptoms.

We know that because those changes in hormone levels can cause perimenopausal symptoms, menopausal symptoms, but they can also cause symptoms throughout the menstrual cycle.

So on Balance app and also throughout our clinic on my website, we have a symptom questionnaire that is important for anybody that has hormonal changes.

It's not just a menopause questionnaire.

It's a questionnaire that anybody can use to just think about any of those symptoms on the questionnaire can be related to changing or low hormone levels at any time of a woman's life, including during her menstrual cycle.

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