Dr. Louise Newson

And I feel like we've got to be looking across the board.

And also, like 20 years ago, if I start to talk to someone about exercise or nutrition, they probably would have thought, well, you're a doctor.

Why are you talking to me like this?

Where's my prescription?

So you sort of feel that's almost your job is the prescribing.

Whereas I've really changed in my practice in that actually 99.9% of what I prescribe is hormones.

And I don't see that so much as medicine because it's just a natural replacement of body identical hormones.

But the rest of my time is really digging quite deep into nutrition, exercise, lifestyle, supplements if needed, which is quite different to how I was as a quick, fast turnaround GP.

And that's really important because I think over the past, lots of people have misunderstood my work thinking all I do is give hormones.

Yeah.

And like, yes, I take hormones myself, but actually if I didn't exercise, if I didn't eat well, like the hormones are good, right?

But they're not that good.

And that sometimes is forgotten because for me, it's basic bread and butter.

Well, same bread and butter, I don't eat bread, but you know.

But for a lot of people, the basics has gone, but not just patients, I think for doctors as well.

And, you know, you're healthy, you look after yourself.

There's lots of our colleagues that don't or they don't see it as a priority.

And even my husband this morning was telling me how many chocolates there are, lots of chocolates on the wards.

And he just looks at the back, looks at the labels and said to the nurses, do you really want all of this in your body?

And he knows the nurses very well.