Dr. Louise Newson

It's awful.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, you know, and then people think we can exercise our way out of menopause or we can, you know, do some mindfulness or whatever.

And, you know, it's a hormone deficiency.

You wouldn't do that.

If someone had an underactive thyroid gland, you wouldn't say, OK, just go for a walk in the woods and do a bit of chanting.

A glass of water should be okay.

Yeah, we do.

And it's so unnecessary.

Yeah.

And it's not even, you know, you're going to have to branch out.

I'll have to mention a bit because...

There's a lot of women with PMDD, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and PMS, where they have essentially perimenopause just for a few days before each period.

So their mood drops, they become more anxious, they can become more irritable.

And then their period comes and they feel fine.

But again, it's the same cause.

It's a hormonal change.

And that's been normalized.

Like for women, we're told, oh, well, you will feel a bit crap a few days before your periods.

But when I see women...