Dr. Louise Newson

It's incredible when you talk to him.

And he said there's over 450 peer-reviewed papers about the benefits of progesterone in the brain, but it's been ignored by clinicians.

And they started to do some work on war veterans in the 70s and 80s, looking at people in the war who'd had cancer.

head injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder.

And they didn't want the idea of a female.

Well, yes, but mainly men, because obviously there are more men involved.

And some of the male people high up in the army said, we don't want you giving a female hormone to our, you know, macho soldiers.

And so a lot of good quality research that would have been done was stopped.

But it's not a female hormone.

It's a male hormone as well.

And

You know, I do wonder why we're not giving progesterone to women, men who've had head injuries, who've had stroke.

Even with spinal cord injuries, there's good evidence that it can improve repair and healing so much quicker.

and I think of all the rehabilitation medicine I've done over the years in stroke units and head injury units and no one's done anything with progesterone so again it's just it's really important to know it's not just a hormone for our womb it works everywhere it works in our bones it works in our cardiovascular system but it's important for forming those other hormones too so having the right amount is really crucial and

We realize more and more, even people who are in their teens who have heavy periods, they usually don't have enough progesterone.

They don't have quite enough hormones to ovulate every month.

So they've got low progesterone, which is causing irregular heavy periods, but also a lot of mental health issues too, and sometimes some other systemic issues.

effects like cystitis, palpitations, dry skin, brain fog, and so forth.

And a lot of women are mislabeled, if you like, with PCOS, polycystic ovarian syndrome.

And if you think most people, including my youngest daughter, are offered the contraception for their heavy periods,