229 - Testosterone: beyond libido

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Testosterone is an important sex hormone for both men and women (although women have much lower levels) produced by your ovaries and adrenal glands and declines during the menopause. When it comes to menopause, testosterone is a hormone that can be misunderstood, and many women struggle to access testosterone treatment on the NHS. Here Dr Louise and her Newson Health colleague, GP and Menopause Specialist Dr Catherine Coward, talk about how it can be a valuable addition to HRT for women around the menopause and beyond. NICE menopause guidance recommends testosterone can be beneficial for women experiencing low libido where HRT alone hasn’t helped. Yet Dr Louise and Dr Catherine talk how in their clinical experience, testosterone benefits can extend beyond sex drive-related symptoms, with patients reporting improvements including having more energy, and reduced brain fog and anxiety. Click here for more about Dr Catherine.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsome. I'm a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-Pon-Avon.
0:21.6	I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.
0:25.6	Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause
0:31.6	and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,
0:38.2	and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.
0:43.7	This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,
0:46.9	which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.
1:02.4	Today on the podcast, I've got a fellow doctor with me today who works very closely with me
1:08.1	physically in the clinic, but also across the clinic and more than just
1:12.9	the clinic actually, because she works with Newston Health Group that helps many people in many
1:17.0	different ways, not always just our patients. So Catherine Coward is a GP like me and not like me
1:24.8	has worked in a small practice with her husband, amazing single-handed practice
1:29.7	for many years. And now she works with us pretty much, I was going to say full-time, but it's more
1:34.8	than full-time because she's always thinking, breathing, and trying to really think about how we
1:41.0	can work even more as an organisation to help even more people, not just in the UK and globally. So I'm very delighted that I've managed to force her to come
1:48.4	on to the podcast today. So thanks for joining me today, Catherine. Thanks, Louise. So you're,
1:54.6	like me, you're very passionate about helping people and helping people in a way that we
2:00.3	learn very early on actually as GPs in a way that they want,
2:04.9	actually, not what we want. It's about them having a choice and a voice. And all patients,
2:10.6	regardless of their gender, regardless of their religious beliefs, regardless of their ethnicity or their race,
2:18.4	actually deserve to be listened to. And I think that's something, as a general practitioner, I learned far more
2:24.4	than I did in hospital. In hospital, it was about treating the disease and the bed number,
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