Dr. Louise Newson

And I think it's really important because so often we're medicalising people to make us feel better as doctors.

And I reflect back to some of the patients that I treated in the past.

And I know, I feel bad saying it, but I know that I gave people antidepressants who probably didn't really benefit or need them.

I probably gave antibiotics.

I gave other things because I just needed to give them something often when they come back and back.

And I often wasn't thinking so much in the bigger picture.

And you probably know what I'm going to say.

I obviously didn't think about hormones either.

Yeah.

But for men and for women here.

And I feel like we've got to be looking across the board.

And also, like 20 years ago, if I start to talk to someone about exercise or nutrition, they probably would have thought, well, you're a doctor.

Why are you talking to me like this?

Where's my prescription?

So you sort of feel that's almost your job is the prescribing.

Whereas I've really changed in my practice in that actually 99.9% of what I prescribe is hormones.

And I don't see that so much as medicine because it's just a natural replacement of body identical hormones.

But the rest of my time is really digging quite deep into nutrition, exercise, lifestyle, supplements if needed, which is quite different to how I was as a quick, fast turnaround GP.

And that's really important because I think over the past, lots of people have misunderstood my work thinking all I do is give hormones.

Yeah.