Dr. Louise Newson

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

So the frustration is that why are we called ugly?

Why is it that women are defined by how they look?

There's so much to unpick here.

But actually, what does this term really mean?

What it really is talking to is the changes that occur in the luteal phase of our cycle.

And I want to talk about this today because there's a lot of misunderstanding and a lot of mislabeling of women when actually we need to just take it back to the basics and think about our hormones and how they change throughout our menstrual cycle.

As hopefully many of you know, hormones are chemical messengers that are secreted by different organs in our body.

They go into the bloodstream and then they work on every cell, every tissue, every organ in the body.

And they have defined and unique properties.

They also have defined and unique chemical structures.

So they're all different.

And we've got dozens of different hormones in our body.

And they work together very closely.

It's incredible the way our endocrine or our hormone system works in our body.

And all the hormones have to balance each other.

If one hormone is out of kilter, it can affect levels of other hormones.

Or if one hormone level is low, other hormones might try and take over.

So this constant flux and balance of hormones is really important for our bodies to be functioning as well as possible and be as healthy as possible as well.

I'm particularly interested in just three hormones, progesterone, estradiol, testosterone.

And for many years, they've been referred to as sex hormones or reproductive hormones, which actually really frustrates me because they're not actually about gender because men have progesterone, estradiol, testosterone in their bodies and women have testosterone, estradiol, progesterone in their bodies too.

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