97 – PMDD, ADHD & autism: addiction as a coping mechanism
Natalie Sykes spent years using heroin and crack cocaine to self-medicate undiagnosed PMDD, autism and ADHD, and now finally understands why.Natalie, founder of the PMDD & Neurodivergence Alliance, te...
1 Sep 30min
96 – How India is waking up to hormone health Sanjith Shetty
In India, one woman asked her gynaecologist about HRT and was told: "over my dead body." Dr Louise Newson travels to India to meet Sanjith Shetty, founder of the menopause community Miror and one of t...
27 Aug 27min
95 – Rosie Moss: is it grief or hormones?
Rosie Moss spent years being told her symptoms were simply grief, when actually there was undiagnosed PMDD also at play.Rosie hosts the podcast Widowed AF, and after her husband Ben died suddenly in a...
25 Aug 31min
94 – Fixing doctors' fear of hormone treatments including testosterone
Dr Holly Carding, GP, Women’s Hormone Specialist and Education Lead at Newson Education, joins Louise to expose the hormone training gap that leaves doctors too scared to prescribe hormone treatments ...
20 Aug 32min
93 – PMDD misdiagnosed for 10 Years: Anna's story
Content advisory: This episode contains themes of mental health and suicideAnna, a nurse, was sectioned, hospitalised in psychiatric wards for months and overdosed more than once, all while being diag...
18 Aug 29min
92 – Hormones, mood and mental health myths Dr Sue Varma
Psychiatrist Dr Sue Varma joins Dr Louise Newson to unpack why hormones are so often left out of mental health care and what gets missed as a result, from puberty to postpartum to perimenopause.Dr Var...
13 Aug 33min
91 – Demi Brown: Endometriosis, fibroids & hormones
Love Is Blind's Demi Santana Brown opens up aboutendometriosis, adenomyosis, fibroids and the power of natural hormones.Before Love Is Blind UK, Demi was a professional footballer for Millwall, West H...
11 Aug 32min
90 – Hair loss, hormones and menopause: what’s really causing it? Archana Rao
Hair loss can have a profound impact on confidence, yet many women are told it’s simply part of getting older or encouraged to spend hundreds of pounds on products that promise far more than they can ...
6 Aug 25min
