Dr. Louise Newson
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first heard Apr 2025
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And that's where progesterone can be really beneficial as well.
So having the balance of hormones with a balanced lifestyle is really important.
What saddens me when I go onto social media platforms and websites and read information about PMS, PMDD, and now the luteal uglies that I've read a lot about, people are just being told to have supplements.
to exercise, to change their diet.
And all of those, of course, are important.
But actually, if we're not treating the underlying cause, which is related to the hormonal imbalance, how are women going to really feel better?
We know it's so hard for women to access hormone treatments, especially when they're younger.
And a lot of teenagers have a progesterone deficiency.
We've known that for many decades.
A lot of people with PMOS, what used to be PCOS, irregular periods, heavy periods, will be low in progesterone.
And decades ago, in fact, Katrina Dalton used to give a lot of progesterone to teenagers and really help reduce the heaviness of their periods, help them to be less heavy and also less painful as well.
And really interestingly, in the 1940s, they gave testosterone to women with heavy, painful periods with good effect too.
So when teenagers often go to their doctors for help with bleeding problems, with PMS, PMDD, they're often given the hormonal contraception.
Now, like I said at the start, hormonal contraception doesn't actually contain hormones.
It contains chemicals that are made to be like hormones, but they're not the same.
They block the action of hormones working in the body.
They can stimulate the receptors a little bit, but we know from the evidence, and the evidence is limited because so few good quality studies have been done, but we know there's an increased incidence of stroke, clot, heart attacks, and
cancers, with people who take a hormone or contraception.
We know that they block the action of hormones on the brain so that they can increase incidence of depression and suicidal thoughts, especially in teenagers.
So why are we giving something that's synthetic with risks to teenagers just because maybe a guideline says so or another doctor's told that doctor that they should be doing that?
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