Dr. Louise Newson

I lose Balance AF.

All the work that I do for free.

There's a huge amount of work I do.

for free but someone has to pay the bills and that comes from the clinic um sadly so because i don't work with pharmaceutical companies i'm not sponsored in any way um so but the bigger picture is is like i say it's not about me and my business it's about the damage to women medicine's got a big hierarchy where it's always the consultants in hospitals think that they know more than gps and

You know, I challenge it.

We've all got academic, clever brains and we can all think differently in medicine.

So it's become very political and health of women always has been, sadly.

It's a really sort of toxic environment and I feel very strongly we should just be learning together.

And we can agree to disagree.

We can move on.

People can choose who they go and see.

But at the end of the day, we have to remember that the majority of women are not able to access hormones.

And a lot of women I meet on the tour are really struggling with their mental health, especially when they're not having hormones and they're being medicalized with antidepressants, antipsychotics, painkillers.

And, you know, I've written a lot about this in the book because there's one thing not prescribing hormones, but there's another thing prescribing inappropriate medication that's not treating the underlying cause.

Absolutely.

And we need to know that there are risks of antidepressants.

You know, there are risks of osteoporosis and bleeding and stroke and even dementia.

Whereas those risks are not there with hormone replacement therapy and actually taking hormones reduces the risk of osteoporosis and dementia.

So we shouldn't be medicalising women because of their symptoms, which that's what saddens me as well.

That's not in any guidelines, actually.