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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 Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
This week, Dr Louise is once again joined by journalist and activist Kate Muir, who made the Davina McCall documentary Sex, Myths and the Menopause. In Kate’s new book, Everything You Need to Know About the Pill (but were too afraid to ask), she turns her attention to the hormones commonly used in the contraceptive pill.
Kate shares personal stories of how women have been negatively affected by synthetic hormones and uncovers the bad science and patriarchy that have had such an impact on women’s health. She also offers hope that women have options and can demand change.
Finally, Kate shares three things every women should know about hormones and the pill:
- Progestins are not all the same. Some of them are androgenic and some of them are oestrogenic, and they have very different effects. So, women can be on the wrong pill for them.
- You can always take a pill holiday. There's nothing wrong with taking a few months off and seeing how you feel. And you may be a different person, or there may be other reasons for why you are in that state of mental health.
- There needs to be more research into every bit of what synthetic hormones do in our bodies, and particularly in our minds.
You can follow Kate on Instagram at @muirka and on @pillscandal
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Reminds me if the debacle of the covid vaccine experiment! Poor women.
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Wow, another fascinating episode and guest. Such helpful insights into hormones in general, and the pill in particular. I’m a pharmacist, as well as a perimenopausal women on hrt, and took the pill for 15 yrs from age 18. So much of the information in this episode I didn’t know, and didn’t question (even as pharmacist) during those 15 years. I will definitely research further and question more if my daughter (now 11) needs contraception in the future.
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
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