106 - Seeing the bigger picture with Men’s Health specialist Dr Jeff Foster
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
If you have a male partner, this episode is definitely one for them too. Dr Jeff Foster is a GP and Men's Health specialist who shares an interest with Dr Newson in hormones and the effects of them - or lack of them - on our lives and future health.
Together they discuss what makes up the specialities of Men's Health and Women's Health, and explain why seeing the bigger picture - one that looks at the whole person - is crucial to understanding and treating hormone deficiencies. Dr Foster discusses testosterone in men and how symptoms of low testosterone can mirror some menopausal symptoms. They discuss the benefits of testosterone on wider aspects of health, and caution is shared about the worrying popularity in some young men to use steroids and newer unregulated drugs such as SARMs.
Dr Foster's advice to women is to look at the men in your life and see if they're struggling with similar symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog, or low libido, and give them a nudge to speak to their doctor.
Dr Foster's 3 tips for men are:
- If you think you may have low testosterone, fill in the Adam Score which is 10 simple questions that indicate whether this might be a problem. Fill in the Adam Score here.
- Go and speak to your doctor if you are showing symptoms of low testosterone, don't be tempted to book a testosterone test yourself online.
- If your test results come back normal but you continue to have symptoms, try and see a Men's Health specialist doctor for further investigation and discussion.
Dr Foster's website is www.drjefffoster.co.uk and you can follow him on social media:
Instagram @drjefffoster
Twitter @doctor_jef
The British Society of Sexual Medicine has some useful guidance for healthcare professionals on managing testosterone deficiency, read this here.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newson, a GP and menopause |
| 0:15.8 | specialist and I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity. In addition, I run the Newston Health |
| 0:22.5 | Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:31.1 | So today on this podcast, I'm really pleased to invite another man. We've had a lot more women |
| 0:36.0 | than men on the podcast, So it's really great to |
| 0:38.5 | welcome Dr. Jeff Foster, who I've known for a few years now. He's a local GP and he's also a |
| 0:44.6 | specialist in men's health. So thanks for coming today, Jeff. Thank you. So you've been a GP for quite a few |
| 0:50.6 | years and now you're sort of branched out a bit more into men's health which we'll talk |
| 0:54.3 | about in a bit so how long have you been a GP for nearly 11 years now but time does go quickly |
| 1:01.0 | and then men's health really for about six years now nearly coming on seven and again it goes very |
| 1:08.9 | very fast so as a GP obviously and I've been a GP for many years, |
| 1:14.9 | we're trained in all sorts of things. But this whole women's health, men's health, I think for a lot of |
| 1:19.7 | people, sounds a bit weird, doesn't it? Because we see women, we see men. So what's so specific about |
| 1:25.8 | men's health? You would have thought that's something that just gets done all the time really well, actually, because we see a. So what's so specific about men's health? You would have thought that's something |
| 1:27.9 | that just gets done all the time really well, actually, because we see a lot of men as GP. |
| 1:32.9 | So can you just define what you mean by men's health? Yeah, sure. The problem is there really isn't |
| 1:39.0 | a clear definition. And you would imagine, even within women's health, that you go and see a cardiologist |
| 1:45.9 | or an endocrinologist and they treat your person's specific issues. And if it's a male problem, |
| 1:52.1 | they treat it. And if it's a feeling problem, they treat it. But the problem is that specialists are |
| 1:56.6 | very good at being specialists, but don't tend to look at the person as a whole. And that's why |
| 2:02.1 | coming from a GP background, and you'll know more than me, you tend to look at patients slightly |
| 2:07.1 | differently, and you want to treat them as a whole person, and slightly more specific in male |
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