Dr. Louise Newson
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47 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 4d ago
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And people are just being told, you're just hormonal.
Just wait till your period comes, you'll feel better.
And for a lot of people, they do just put up with it.
And increasingly through social media platforms, through other forums, people are learning more that perhaps they shouldn't be suffering in this way.
Many decades ago, they defined the term premenstrual dysphoric disorder, PMDD, after they defined PMS, premenstrual syndrome.
And what they really are saying is that it's more severe symptoms.
The symptoms are the same, but they affect people in more severe ways.
In the 1960s and 70s, PMDD was made a psychiatric condition, which I think was a real problem, actually.
When you look back in the history of medicine, there's a few things that have really damaged women.
And this is one of them.
Because the antidepressants had come to market, the drug companies were working very closely with psychiatrists.
Psychiatrists were writing guidelines for lots of psychiatric
And they then decided to make PMDD a psychiatric condition and say first-line treatment is psychiatric medication.
Before that time, in the 1950s and 60s, Katrina Dalton, a doctor, had done the most amazing work talking about PMS, PMDD, doing some research, seeing hundreds and hundreds of women throughout her clinics working.
with PMS and PMDD and giving them natural progesterone with often transformational effects because she was creating a constant level of progesterone in the body at the right amount.
So there wasn't this big high and low of progesterone in the luteal phase.
She wrote a lot about it, but the medical establishment didn't want to believe her.
They didn't want to listen because she was, inverted commas, only a GP.
She wasn't a gynecologist.
She wasn't a psychiatrist.
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