Dr. Louise Newson

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10,380 appearances 49 recordings 5 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 4d ago

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

Like, how can they be?

It doesn't make sense, actually.

So a lot of women have symptoms of low mood, reduced energy, poor concentration, low libido, muscle joint pains.

And they've been told that they have fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, depression, anxiety, and

you know, personality disorders, all sorts of labels are given to women.

But then if you measure their level of testosterone and it's low, then often I'll talk to them about having a therapeutic trial of testosterone.

And more and more when I see people in those clinical scenarios and prescribe testosterone for them,

their whole life is transformed.

It can make a massive difference to their mood, energy, concentration, stamina, muscle and joint pains, migraines, headaches, all sorts of conditions can really improve or melt away rather when they're prescribed testosterone.

So we can't just be thinking about progesterone.

We have to think about other hormones.

And obviously it's really important to look

more than just about progesterone, estradiol, testosterone.

So we always do thyroid function tests, iron levels, vitamin D levels, vitamin B12, you know, look to see if there's another underlying treatable cause.

And then also, and Katrina Dalter was amazing because she wrote a lot about this as well, looking at nutrition, looking at the type of food people eat.

looking at exercise, looking at sleep.

All these important pillars are really, really important because they can affect progesterone levels.

If we've got more stress in our body, it actually lowers progesterone.

And we need to make sure that we have the right balance of progesterone because a lot of people who have stress, burnout, they've had trauma in the past, they have very low levels of progesterone.

And so we need to, rather than just looking at how we reduce our cortisol, how we reduce stress in our body, we need to be thinking about how can we balance those hormones, which will then help reduce our cortisol and stop us having this sort of low-grade stress in our body the whole time.

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