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The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

15 - Championing hormones, healing and strength with Christine D’Ercole

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Content advisory: this episode includes themes of self-harm

In this episode, Dr Louise Newson is joined by Christine D’Ercole, a master world champion track cyclist and Peloton instructor, who shares her deeply personal and inspiring journey. Together, they dive into crucial conversations about pelvic floor health, urinary incontinence and eating disorders, shining a light on topics often left in the shadows. 

Christine opens up about the impact of body image and societal judgment on women and reflects on her own struggles with an eating disorder, self-harm, and the lifelong challenge of overcoming ingrained beliefs about her body, and how these experiences intersect with hormonal changes throughout life. 

The conversation also tackles the complex role hormones, especially testosterone, play in women’s health and athletic performance. Together, they candidly explore the difficult decisions around testosterone and athletics, weighing thebenefits of improved quality of life and muscle strength against concerns about performance enhancement in sport. 

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The information provided in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. The views expressed by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Dr Louise Newson or the Newson Health Group.   

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

On my podcast today, I've got Christine DeKohl, who is a master world champion in track cycling.

0:09.0

She's also a peloton instructor. We cover so much in such a short time. We talk about eating disorders.

0:16.7

We talk about pelvic floor, urinary incontinence. We talk about being put down as a woman and who you listen to and who you shouldn't listen to.

0:24.7

We also talk about hormones and about testosterone, especially with sport.

0:30.1

Loads to get into and I just hope you really enjoy it as much as I did.

0:34.5

So, Christine, I am really super excited about doing this podcast.

0:38.6

I've been waiting, it feels like months for you to come.

0:42.2

And obviously you're not here in the studio, but you're here in real life.

0:45.5

And my husband has a, he got his Peloton bike in lockdown and he uses it, I don't know,

0:52.8

three, four, five times a week.

0:54.4

He's really, and he's very competitive, so he knows that he's a lot better than all his friends.

1:00.2

But I said to him, oh, do you know this lady?

1:02.9

And he's like, what?

1:04.0

Yes.

1:04.6

So, like, that's really great.

1:07.5

And I actually do Peloton nearly every morning, actually, but I do yoga. and I get into a lot of trouble if I log on as him, as you can imagine.

1:18.0

Of course, that's very, don't do that.

1:22.7

But, you know, exercise is so important.

1:26.3

We know that.

1:27.2

That's just obvious. Like, that's nothing about

1:29.4

hormones. But it's still a man's world out there and men are expected to do certain exercises

1:35.2

and women maybe shouldn't or can't or whatever. So you've really changed the narrative in what

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