Dr. Louise Newson

It was still rubbish.

But globally, it's only about 5% of menopausal women.

Yeah.

Whereas before the WHI study, the terrible study, it was about 30% in the UK and 40% in the US.

So it's dropped, it went down and it's come up, but it's plateaued the last year at 14%.

Areas of deprivation, it's a lot lower.

So, you know, but the guidelines are clear.

The majority of women, first line treatment is hormones.

Majority is not 14%.

So this inequality of this poor access to safe, effective medicine has got to change.

Yeah.

And also it's not just menopause, obviously with perimenopause, but also PMS and PMDD.

So, you know, my 23 year old has PMDD.

She uses natural hormones and they've transformed her life.

And I see a lot of younger people in their 20s who maybe just have hormones for a few days when their progesterone is dropping before their periods and it is transforming them.

Amazing.

So I think the biggest difference is women are empowered with knowledge and then they can choose.

I think that's, you know, when women get together, like some quite powerful things happen, as I'm sure you realise.

So it's great.

So there's lots to do.