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Have a menopause question? You’ll find the answers here. Join me, GP and Menopause Specialist Dr Louise Newson, for the definitive perimenopause and menopause podcast. Each week I’m joined by a special guest for the lowdown on the latest research and treatments, bust myths and share inspirational stories. This podcast is brought to you by the Newson Health Group, which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing personalised perimenopause and menopause care for all women. It funds cutting-edge menopause research and creates clinical-led education programmes for healthcare professionals. It also funds the award-winning balance menopause support app, which provides free menopause resources and support to millions of people worldwide, empowering and enabling women to have choice and control over their perimenopause and menopause treatment.
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Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
235 - Menopause and brain health: what’s the link?
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
In this episode Dr Louise is joined by world-renowned neuroscientist Dr Lisa Mosconi, PhD. Dr Lisa is Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic and Women’s Brain Initiative at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York and author of bestsellers The XX Brain and Brain Food.
Dr Lisa was studying nuclear medicine and neuroscience when her grandmother and her grandmother’s three sisters all developed Alzheimer's. Dr Lisa became interested in the cause of Alzheimer’s and why women are more susceptible. Her research has shown that, rather than a disease of old age, it starts in midlife and menopause potentially plays a part.
Dr Lisa discusses her most recent paper, which found that women who took hormones in midlife to treat their menopause symptoms were less likely to develop dementia than those who hadn’t taken oestrogen.
Finally, Dr Lisa shares three things to consider about female hormones:
- Oestrogen, and oestradiol in particular, is the master regulator of women's brains. It really is like saying that oestrogen is to your brain what fuel is for an engine. It keeps your brain running.
- Endogenous oestrogen (produced within your body) is different from exogenous oestrogen (synthetic). The bioidentical oestradiol is probably the best one to use because it really maps on the same circuits for your own endogenous oestrogen.
- I would love for all women to be able to make an informed decision about whether or not hormone therapy is a viable option for them. Many women who are eligible for HRT do not go on HRT out of fear and the fear comes from outdated information, mislabelling on some of the packages.
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great info, thanks
Monday Jul 29, 2024
one more point - that clinical trial for some mutant estrogen (alpha receptor) must include a cohort using today’s estradiol. It reeks of symptom management (reductive medicine) and risks having a conflict of interest.
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
I think that researcher, clearly not a clinician, should stop talking about out women who are ”eligible” for HRT. Eligible?
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
That graph to me is egregious because it looks like a gigantic risk to take HRT if you were in the group of women damaged by the WHI scare. She admits that the big mountain of trend for women over 60 is irrelevant (trend, driven mostly by WHI data science). Please beg her to modify it show all her trend data in some other way. Some FDA policy wonk will use it to block HRT for us.
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
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