Fearne Cotton

The thing that grates the most, I guess, is that all of this is on women and young girls.

Yes.

So not only do we have no choice, if we're looking first and foremost at the contraceptive pill, okay, we've got no choice.

We're like, I guess I'll take the synthetic one.

But there's a not much research seemingly into let's look at a natural alternative, but equally nothing on the boy slash man.

I mean, it's a minefield that I'm happy to dig into and like, yeah, let's.

really dissect it and get into it because it's so, so important for women.

I think because so many women and young girls, even if they're, I wasn't cognizant of it as a young person, but we feel so out of control in terms of what our options are.

I think that's why my head's been in the sand.

So let's move on now to looking at, you know, women of my age, which will be a large portion of my audience will be women who will be perhaps thinking about this or women slightly younger thinking, I should start to prepare for what that looks like down the line.

When you go to your GP,

thinking, yeah, I probably have got some symptoms here that are alluding to, you know, hormonal changes in my body.

Are you automatically offered the synthetic HRT initially?

Is that how it works?

We had Callie Beaton on here, a comedian who's written a brilliant book about

The changes in midlife and one of the big fuck-ups for her was she went to the doctor and they said, you've got bipolar and she was prescribed a ton of medication and then she realised she was going through the menopause and it hadn't even been on the doctor's radar to quiz her about that.

So if we, like me, know very little about hormones, what are our hormones impacting physically, mentally?

What are they doing?

Not only that, you're going to be paranoid that you're going to be... I'm constantly like, can I wear that outfit at that time of the month because I'm going to be...

So is there any risk of, say the big one that we keep getting fed in the press, breast cancer, is there any risk of that with the body identical?