Dr. Louise Newson

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

Psychiatrists were writing guidelines for lots of psychiatric

And they then decided to make PMDD a psychiatric condition and say first-line treatment is psychiatric medication.

Before that time, in the 1950s and 60s, Katrina Dalton, a doctor, had done the most amazing work talking about PMS, PMDD, doing some research, seeing hundreds and hundreds of women throughout her clinics working.

with PMS and PMDD and giving them natural progesterone with often transformational effects because she was creating a constant level of progesterone in the body at the right amount.

So there wasn't this big high and low of progesterone in the luteal phase.

She wrote a lot about it, but the medical establishment didn't want to believe her.

They didn't want to listen because she was, inverted commas, only a GP.

She wasn't a gynecologist.

She wasn't a psychiatrist.

And because there was a big push at that time when she was prescribing natural progesterone for synthetic progestogens, for the synthetic contraceptives,

to be launched and also all the psychiatric medications as well.

So her voice was drowned by the medical establishment, by guideline writing committees, by pharmaceutical companies as well.

But this is where we have to think about basic physiology and basic science.

So when there is a problem in medicine, we try and treat the underlying cause.

So PMS or PMDD can really negatively affect quality of life.

Because symptoms of low mood, anxiety, irritability, brain fog, poor sleep, memory problems, fatigue, muscle joint pains, palpitations, skin changes can all really affect a woman's ability to function at work and at home and just day to day.

And to normalize those symptoms and give us yet another label.

So talking about these luteal uglies in a way that's just quite amusing and funny actually really upsets me.

Because we know that around 80% of women with PMDD actually have suicidal thoughts.

I spoke to a lady yesterday in my clinic who has PMDD, and she says that her boyfriend's very close to leaving her.

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