Dr. Louise Newson

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

They're not about sex either because they obviously can improve libido, but they're not just about libido at all.

So we need to be taking away thinking about them as sex hormones.

Then the whole reproductive hormones is really frustrating too because so many people think that it's gynecologists that are in charge of those three hormones.

And often if women want menopause advice, support and treatment, they have to be referred to a menopause clinic, which is run by a gynecologist.

That doesn't make sense either because gynecologists really are specialists in the reproductive organs.

But our hormones, progesterone, estradiol, testosterone, are made in our ovaries.

They're made in our adrenal glands.

They're made in our brain.

They're also made in other tissues and organs in our body.

So why decide that gynecologists need to control our hormones?

It really doesn't make any sense to me as a clinician.

But our hormones do help with reproduction.

So we have to have the right balance of those three hormones at the right time in our menstrual cycle for us to ovulate, produce an egg, and then also to get our womb ready for implantation.

So if an egg is fertilized, so if we have sex at the right time, the egg is fertilized by a sperm, then it actually needs to embed into the lining of the womb to start the pregnancy.

So the womb has to be prepared.

So the balance of those three hormones is really important and changes throughout our menstrual cycle.

So really, after our period, we start to have this so-called follicular phase where we have an increase in estradiol.

There is some increase in progesterone.

And then in the middle of our cycle is where we usually ovulate.

And there's a peak of all three hormones actually.

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