Dr. Louise Newson

Yeah.

So there's this sort of willful ignorance and blindness that goes on, which I think is really not very validating for women.

And there's this misunderstanding so much about...

menopause and hormone treatment is just, you know, a sort of a celebrity drug that people take rather than something that actually can really transform the quality of life and improve their future health as well.

And, you know, we know from many studies that women who take hormones live longer, which is huge.

And they have less osteoporosis.

They have less heart disease.

Like it's massive, but it's somehow... It is massive.

if doctors don't know it they don't tell their patients and then they're dismissing them you know we have lots of patients that are told you're too young to have symptoms it can't be your hormones and like that's no one's too young my youngest patient was 12 when she became menopausal because her ovaries didn't develop properly yeah so can you imagine being perimenopausal at school and no one being able to pick it up you know that's crazy what's that called

Yeah.

Well, she had these things.

She had streak ovaries.

So like the tiny ovaries that didn't develop.

So they weren't producing hormones.

And then I had another patient who was 14.

She had a cyst removed from her ovaries.

And then a year later, another cyst, but they essentially removed most of her ovaries.

So she's sitting in class, like not being able to concentrate, not having a clue what's going on.

And who do you talk to, you know?

So it took both of those people 10 years for diagnosis and then another 10 years for the right treatment.