119 - Testosterone: why can’t we have our own hormone back? With Dr Zoe Hodson

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Dr Zoe Hodson returns to the podcast this week to talk to Dr Louise Newson about the hormone testosterone. Zoe is a GP and senior doctor at Newson Health, and together they discuss the impact of low testosterone on your daily life, why it can be difficult to get hold of, and gender inequalities in healthcare provision when it comes to this particular hormone. Zoe is on a personal mission to ask every local health commissioning group if their clinicians can prescribe testosterone and, if not, why not? Change is happening slowly within primary care and Zoe and Louise are committed to continue to push for testosterone to be regarded as an integral part of menopause care at a free, local level for all. Zoe’s 3 asks for change: We need to normalise testosterone in women, so please keep talking about it. If you take it already, tell people, and tell your healthcare professionals about the difference it makes to you. Keep alerting your GP practice to the ‘Confidence in Menopause’ course on fourteenfish.com. It is now free for all healthcare professionals across the globe. If you’re going to a menopause clinic and they haven’t mentioned testosterone, ask them about it. Zoe would like to thank all her followers on social media for their wonderful support and encouragement to keep speaking up for women and trying to bring about change for good. You can follow Zoe on Instagram @manchestermenopausehive

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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 Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon.
0:31.7	So today I have back with me, Dr Zeri Hodson, who has been before,
0:36.3	and I don't think this will be your last time,
0:38.1	Zoe, you don't get away that lightly.
0:40.1	Thank you.
0:40.6	Thank you.
0:41.2	Thank you very much for agreeing to talk to me today.
0:44.4	Zoe is one of our, if I say senior clinician, that sounds like she's very old and she's not younger
0:49.2	than me.
0:49.7	So she's one of our very experienced clinicians that work with us in the clinic, but she does more than just work in the clinic.
0:56.5	She's constantly trying to help reach women, reach men, reach anyone that will listen to try and improve menopause care.
1:05.7	And also try and look at the disparity of care actually and trying to reach women that we can't reach through
1:12.0	our clinic or even the app or some other of our resources. So she's worked incredibly hard
1:17.9	behind the scenes. But today we wanted to just really talk a little bit about HRT, but really
1:24.3	focus more on testosterone because this comes up a lot and we just thought it would be
1:30.1	really useful to have a bit of a discussion about it. So I hope that's what you realise you're here
1:34.3	for today. I know. I have brought bigger soap boxes for both of us. We need the massive ones today,
1:39.9	I think. So let's just take it really far back. So if I had met you 10 years ago and I had said to you,
1:48.6	so how much testosterone do you prescribe for women? What would you have said? Well, this is really where
1:54.1	it all started. I actually had this case and a lovely lady came in to see me. She's up and running
1:59.7	on HRT, taking a bit of navigating,
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