Why You're Gaining Weight! - Every Woman Needs To Know This About Menopause | Dr. Louise Newson
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- Why do women struggle with weight during and after the menopause? This is the key question I’m putting to Dr Louise Newson on todays podcast as it’s the most commonly asked question that I get from Doctor’s Kitchen followers as well as from patients during my medical career.
She is the perfect person to be discussing this topic as Dr Louise Newson is one of the UK's leading medical experts on the menopause and has championed women's health for years. I also discuss with Dr Louise the 3 key things that all women should understand about the menopause.
Having worked as a GP as well as opening the Newson Health menopause clinic, she has built a wealth of knowledge from first-hand experience of treating perimenopausal and menopausal women. And she’s also written “The Definitive Guide to the Perimenopause and Menopause” which lays out everything women need to know to understand and reclaim their power during this stage. Her book covers:
- The key facts about hormones
- An essential guide to HRT
- Navigating an early menopause
- Exercising and Eating during the menopause
- Taking care of your mental health
We also discuss the unlikely way in which Louise found out about her own menopause, which just goes to show how unaware we could all be about these symptoms!
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CHAPTERS:
Timecodes:
00:00 - why do women struggle with weight during and after the menopause?
10:00 - 3 things people should take away from the menopause.
18:30 - people are becoming more curious and engaged.
36:20 - Louise’ lightbulb moment
48:20 - QUICK FIRE QUESTIONS
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Louise is doing women across the world the bigest favour. educational podcasts like this is whats so needed for every woman and all the Doctor's...thank you louise for all the work you have done & still doing much respect to you always ❤❤
She is larger than Life I Truly respect her 💝🙏🏻
I went through menopause at 38. I had a male doctor who was sensitive to women s issues and I had presented with the issue that I did not know what was wrong with me as I had become tearful and no longer knew myself! He did a hormone test( this was 30 years ago) then he told me that I was more than half way through menopause A huge shock at 38. I was immediatly put on HRT. We had to change the dose twice to get it right. When I had to have an operation 28 years later the doctor took me off HRT and I swung back into all the menopausal symptoms ! It was horrendous and he would not listen until he went to a talk from a woman doctor who lectured all these specialists on what they, in essence were doing to women by not doing after care in regards to hormones. He rang me with an apology and an appointment with this wonderful woman. She tested me for all hormones bloods and goodness knows what else. We trialled bio identical hormones . Back to normal again.
This stage of life women go through can ruin lives, marriages and a woman’s confidence in themselves. We need every GO aware of and sympathetic to a woman’s journey.
It feels like fighting against windmills. I am 51 now and the last year was actually the worst of my life. I was deeply perimenopausal and no gynecologist or dr. would understand the impact of my horrific symptoms. I kept reading, researching and educating myself until I managed to go on HRT and as the last step (this was the hardest one) I got my GP (with pressure) to prescribe testosterone as a private recipe in Germany because the society here is still ignorant talking about "the male hormone" denying it to women. I was at my worst before taking these hormones and I can still not talk about it to many same aged women because they deny any problems, they laugh about my symptoms, they don`t stand together and that makes me extremely angry. Before HRT I was a mental wreck ready to leave my job after more than 20 years.... Nobody would understand my pain. I`s still not all superfine but I can live with my symptoms much better now and I got myself the help I needed. My own effort-against windmills.
I’m going after testosterone. Have to find a provider willing, it’s regulated in the US. From what I’ve learned, we make more testosterone than estrogen; which explains why even with estrogen and progesterone I feel like crap still and can’t sleep.
what is the name of the HRT youre taking?
I’m in the states and we have the same issues here. Thank you for sharing your experience we’re one step closer to informing other women and improving our health . Blessings ❤
Thank you for sharing your experience. I just messaged my doctor and she put me on compounded Estrogen, Testosterone and Progesterone
@@AnimalFarm341In the UK it’s an absolute travesty that even if you are lucky enough to get a GP ago prescribe HRT for menopause, testosterone is not included in that so you have to try and source privately for a specialist clinic, which, consultation along with the cream, costs nearly £400.
I keep trying to encourage my friends to try HRT but some are very reluctant because many doctors are still afraid.
My doctor said Ishouldonly take it for 2 years!
On my daughters ward are women with strokes, falls, weakness, blood pressure tablets and statins but not one of them has taken or been prescribed HRT. It costs the NHS a fortune and the women their independence. I am so frustrated by this ignorance of the benefits and the false evidence that is still presented as fact.
Please keep going, Louise.
3:09 The UK women are spoiled because the NHS covers many things. In Ireland we always go private because the public health system is deliberately downgraded as policy. We pay for HRT each month, around 40 euro
@@eunice6694 We are lucky to have the NHS. But the issue for many women who take the lead from the GP, is that doctors are often reluctant to prescribe. Many GP's are not as knowledgable on this subject as they should be, so if one is not feisty and informed they will not prescribe. I have been on it for 10 years, I have bone issues, so have argued my point from that perspective. HRT has given me a better quality of life. We are required to work till 66 so need to be healthy.
Maybe its those injections causing those mysterious strokes and myocarditis 🤡
I am post menopausal...i did take estrogen for ten years till the doctor cut me off. It really helped me. But i went thru divorce in my forties mostly because i started peri menopause in my 30 s. My symtoms were extreme so my family and me suffered. I wish the doctor would have helped me cause i felt crazy. Thank you for this video. Wished i knew more years ago
I've watched many podcasts with Louise in, I love how she really opened up her personal experiences and I can relate to so many in yours, hindsight is a wonderful thing, she seems to be vilified by the media frequently and by people in her profession and you can see here where her passion for change comes from. I'm educated enough thanks to Louise to know I need HRT which ones to try and have been through alot till I found one that absorbed, Testosterone has been a game changed for me, sadly I've had to source this privately, what's really hard is to find the balance of what's right for you and to get back up to find it and prescribe it, so keep going!!
Lovely to see the real Louise and not just Louise the professional. A very special conversation. Thank you both.
I love this woman. Thank you for speaking out for all those women suffering.
Firstly, I love your channel and recipes 😊
Secondly, Thank you so much for interviewing Louise. She's a beacon for all women silently suffering.
Now, to just find a doctor in Australia that doesn't make me spend a fortune jumping through a million hoops till I can't be bothered jumping anymore 🤞🏻
I live in hope 😂
The sad thing is women know all this, it is clinicians who would do well to learn about the harms of untreated loss of sex hormones. If men routinely outlived their testicles they would be able to get replacement just like that, it wouldn't be controversial or taboo. They wouldn't have to print off the NICE guidelines and go into battle to get treated.
Louise you are a legend ❤❤❤❤❤ im 40 my mam died few years back so im goin threw this and didn't have my mam to ask now i feel u have helped me xxxxxx 💕💕
Thank you Dr. Newsome. You are VALUED ❤
I salute Louise for the work she is doing.
However, having been diagnosed with ER+ breast cancer, HRT is forbidden.
I feel forgotten and left behind.
All I can do is eat healthy, reduce my weight and exercise.
You need to interview Dr Liz O'Riorden.
I had ER+ breast cancer in 2018 which was successfully treated and then was given Letrozole (which aims to block oestrogen thus causing severe menopause symptoms). I felt so weak, miserable, foggy etc that I chose to stop it but being in my 60s Iwas still menopausal. I then found the Newson clinic during lockdown and started HRT and eventually Testosterone. I am now 5 years clear and feel younger and fitter than before cancer. HRT does NOT cause cancer but prevents many other diseases as well as relieving the misery.
Thank you Louise for fighting so hard for women to live, not just exist.
Most survivors of breast cancer actually die from cardiovascular disease NOT breast cancer. Appropriate hormone therapy reduces this risk. Women should be given the right to choose quality of life and protection from worse diseases over the small theoretical risk of breast cancer.
Actually you just need to find a well educated practitioner. Dr Susan hardwick- smith specifically talks about the truth with cancer and hrt- see her video “the importance of testosterone in women”. She isn’t the only doc talking about this cancer misnomer.
Do you want quality or quantity of life? Most cancers are caused by our environment. Its rarely hereditary. "Cancer treatments" kill most people or does irreversibly damage especially to the endocrine system.
I have to permanently now stay on a sugar free/low carbs diet not to gain weight. I would have taken HRT had we not been scaremongered about risks of cancer years ago.
Louise's work is so very important - fantastic to see her on the Dr's Kitchen pod
Thank you, this was great. Really informative and encouraging. Louise is a fantastic advocate and menopause specialist 💛
Louise--thank you and thank your family for giving woman so much time and effort to validate & educate this experience!
Very informative. Thank you for this video/podcast
Excellent interview!
So interesting. Learned a lot as always
Thanks a lot for the video. It was interesting.
Just finished a book about menopause from the dr Stacy Sims.
I have the impression that menopause is more and more talked about and thanks for being part of that movement !
❤ louise newson she an AMAZING WOMAN THAT CARES AND HELPS WOMEN GOING THROUGH THE MENOPAUSE ❤
I LOVE TO GO TO YOUR CLINIC❤
Thank you for very informative content, loved it. May I ask what is the name of the book Louise referred to at around minute 19 of the video please? Many thanks
The book is called “Unwell Women” by Elinor Cleghorn. I’m looking forward to reading it as well!
Very interesting podcast, as always and it's great to know that even medical doctors catastrophise about their health 😊. Does this mean though that all women, regardless of how they experience (peri)menopause, should be on HRT to reduce the risk of CVD, T2D etc? thanks!
Yes!
100%
"Wait till you get a heart disease or diabetes and then we'll address that" is the British way of doing things. They place way more importance in prophylaxis on the European continent.
Is anyone on bio identical hormones? Would love to here some stories, what were yr worst symptoms? have yr symptoms got better? How long did it take?
Wow! Can you link the study regarding the production of estrogen at the onset of brain damage? I can't seem to find that anywhere.
at 14 minutes. I hope someone can link it
I am in menopause due to hysterectomy last year, both ovaries also removed. I am now 50. Can i just take testosterone instead of estrogen?
You need all 3 hormones to feel optimal...but you need to start with estrogen &progesterone first , then you introduce testosterone when estrogen & progesterone are settled & balanced for you ...
I don't think you need progesterone, because it is only needed to protect your womb when you take estrogen. Probably estrogen and testosterone.
Yes if you don't have a uterus you only nedd estrogen and testosterone, but you have to a blood test 1st to see what your levels are now.
@@kychpal6236some take progesterone just because they like the sedative affect (helps with sleep). I learned that from dr louise newson. Also if you have history of endometriosis and have had Surgical Menopause, you need it, if it all hasnt gone away. As in my case.
What hormone level is optimal when on hrt?
There is no one size fits all, we need to be at physiologic levels(your personal levels), it’s trail and error with hormone testing and literally how you feel. I think I listened to a podcast with Louise the other day and she suggested how helpful it would be if woman’s hormones were tested at age 30 so that when we get to peri and our hormones start disappearing then it would be simpler to figure out the level each individuals levels are meant to be.
Hello csn your tell me wot a aura ring is,
I take hrt and gained weight? Any thoughts?
You still have to watch your food. Go low carb
I gained weight before HRT. We really have to watch the sugars and refined carbs even while on it. Our bodies are just not the same anymore. I put on 30 lbs. in perimenopause, and I’m working on losing it. It’s very stubborn, but I won’t give up.
Intermittent fasting....
@@jessicahitchens6926, I’ve been doing intermittent fasting for four years now. Unfortunately I’m still struggling. I just had my thyroid checked and was told it was off so I think that’s where my problem is.
Really needs to be OBE or something not only to recognise the amazing work but make the (probably more male) head honchos of the medical and pharma industries respect what she is saying. Unbelievable the gas lighting that goes on. I experienced it from my own (femalej NHS GP when I asked for testosterone to go with my standard NHS HRT and it was a hard no. She told me to try more sex toys which made me feel like it was my fault for being unsexy.
So. Pathologise menopause and prescribe HRT. Just halfway through, so maybe there's more to come ...
Life expectancy for women in 1850 (UK) was 42 years. It rose to 50 once all the infants that died were removed from the figures. In other words, women experienced menopause then they died. Being oestrogen deficient was the least of their worries. Women now (if they are fortunate enough to remain in good health) may experience 30 (or more) years of life beyond menopause. Being oestrogen deficient during these years increases the risk of life-limiting conditions including diabetes, osteoporosis and heart disease. We wouldn’t expect a type 1 diabetic (whose pancreas has stopped working) to live without the hormone insulin. Why is female hormone deficiency any different? The most important factor is getting the scientific information out there so people can make informed choices rather than sweeping statements based on hearsay and social media.
Just curious..what are you drinking?😊
If a doctor is battleing the establishment, why?is it because of money having to be spend on womens health or wot
You have to do what you feel is best for yourself. I choose to go the natural route. I am post menopause, and am very happy I chose not to take HRT 6 women I knew chose HRT all died from Breast Cancer.
The greatest risk for breast cancer is age, when we have reduced levels of oestrogen. Heart attacks and strokes increase substantially after the menopause because of the loss of our natural hormones!
BHRT DOES NOT CAUSE BREAST CANCER. Its outdated thinking...
Please do some research as BHRT is the safest option for optimal health.
The natural route will not protect you from age diseases unfortunately...
Our bones our heart our brains need estrogen, progesterone & testosterone that is a fact ...
Well I know plenty of women who never took HRT who also died from breast cancer. There are many factors that contribute to the disease e.g. alcohol consumption, genetics, and lifestyle.
Also, as a woman not having hormones could be considered unnatural. We have around 600 oestrogen receptors all over our bodies for a reason. It is far more natural to retain your hormones.
@@mavr1215 3 of the 6 women I mentioned who died from it are my Aunts . Both of my father's sisters and the other was my mom's only sister My mom's sister was not going to take HRT but her stupid Doctor said if you don't take it for yourself take it for me , I would love to put my fist through that womens face. The cancer doctor confirmed it was the HRT. She should have lived a lot longer because on my mothers side of the family the women live into their hundreds There is no family history of breast cancer on either side of my family. Then there is my cousin in-law she died 2 months ago from breast cancer, yep she was on HRT she was in her 50s no family history. The other 2 women also in their 50s both on HRT were mothers to my daughters friends. So sad that these women died so young. That is why I won't take It ,my sisters won't and cousins who lost their mothers won't. I love living drug free. Because going the natural route is very freeing and good for my health, eat healthy and work out and stay off of drugs.
They probably didn't take body identical oestrogen, which has a much lower risk of breast cancer