Dr. Louise Newson

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9,771 appearances 47 recordings 5 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 5d ago

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

Guidelines still to this day, in 2026, they still write about antidepressants, even antipsychotics.

But also when they write about hormones, they only refer to synthetic hormones, which are not actually hormones.

Hopefully some of you have read my book, The Power of Hormones, or know from some of the work that I produce that contraception, although they're called hormonal contraception, they do not contain hormones.

They contain a synthetic chemical, which has a similar but different chemical structure to our own hormones.

And in that way, they block the action of our own hormones working in our body.

So to block a hormone that has beneficial effects in our brain and body does not make sense when we're trying to help women with PMS and PMDD.

And this is what Katrina Dalton knew, wrote about extensively decades ago and is still ignored.

So women who have any symptoms in their menstrual cycle, the first thing I would do is do a symptom questionnaire and maybe do it at different times of the menstrual cycle.

So do it just after your period, then do it in the middle of your cycle, then do it before your period and compare.

And a lot of people have a lot more symptoms in the second half of their cycle.

It might just be for a day or two before the period.

It might be for a few days.

It might be even for two or three weeks.

So you might have the majority of time with symptoms.

And often as we age and our own hormones generally decline in levels, people can have more severe symptoms for longer with PMS and PMDD.

So if you do have any symptoms and they're affecting you, then that's when you need to try and seek help, support and treatment.

The other thing, as many of you know, is when we prescribe hormone treatments, we do it for two reasons.

One is to help people feel better.

And as a doctor, it's really lovely to help people feel better.

But the second reason is to improve future health.

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