Dr. Louise Newson

There's a lot of female doctors that are my age, you know, I mean, I'm 55, but at my age and older, and they've never had a problem.

They've never had a symptom.

So they just think it's all just ridiculous.

And quite a few doctors now have said to our patients, oh, menopause is just a fad.

Perimenopause is just a media term or it's just a new fashion buzzword.

And it's almost like because they didn't have a problem.

They don't think it's an issue.

And I think that's a very dangerous place to be as a doctor.

You know, I've never had psychosis, but does that mean I can't treat people who've had a psychotic episode or somebody who's... Sort of like empathy 101.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So there's this sort of willful ignorance and blindness that goes on, which I think is really not very validating for women.

And there's this misunderstanding so much about...

menopause and hormone treatment is just, you know, a sort of a celebrity drug that people take rather than something that actually can really transform the quality of life and improve their future health as well.

And, you know, we know from many studies that women who take hormones live longer, which is huge.

And they have less osteoporosis.

They have less heart disease.

Like it's massive, but it's somehow... It is massive.

if doctors don't know it they don't tell their patients and then they're dismissing them you know we have lots of patients that are told you're too young to have symptoms it can't be your hormones and like that's no one's too young my youngest patient was 12 when she became menopausal because her ovaries didn't develop properly yeah so can you imagine being perimenopausal at school and no one being able to pick it up you know that's crazy what's that called

Yeah.