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The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

27 - Elizabeth Day on The Cost of Not Believing Women

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8798 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Why are women still not believed when they describe their symptoms? And what happens when stories of pain, struggle or resilience are dismissed by healthcare professionals, families or even society?

In this episode, Dr Louise Newson is joined by award-winning author and podcaster Elizabeth Day for a conversation that cuts to the heart of these questions. Best known for her podcast How to Fail and her new novel One of Us, Elizabeth brings both personal experience and cultural insight to a wide-ranging discussion about fertility, perimenopause and the ongoing stigma around conditions like PMDD and menopause.

Together they explore how women often minimise their own symptoms, how fertility treatment can mask or trigger later hormonal issues and why mental health struggles linked to hormones are so easily overlooked. Elizabeth also shares how fiction, vulnerability and social media can create unexpected spaces for recognition and empathy, helping women feel less isolated.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So for World Menopause month in October, I'm going to be coming to three theatres,

0:04.9

the 5th of October in Glasgow with Kay Adams, the 12th of October in Birmingham with Liz Earle and

0:11.7

the 19th of October in Kingston near London with Emma Barnett. I'm going to be doing a Q&A, so these

0:19.2

women will be questioning me, asking me about my background, my work, and also about hormones.

0:26.2

And the second half will be audience asking questions.

0:30.1

So there'll be lots of opportunity to put your questions across.

0:33.2

You can ask me anything, of course.

0:35.3

And I really look forward to meeting some of you there.

0:39.8

My podcast today is with Elizabeth Day, who's an award-winning author and podcaster. She runs the

0:46.7

podcast How to Fail. Her most recent book is one of us, and we talk a lot about this. We talk

0:52.9

about some of the characters but the main thing

0:55.9

that's weave through our conversation is about women not being believed or listened to how we need

1:01.8

to change it we need to improve conversations for women and we need to empower them so they

1:07.2

they can really be the best version of themselves going forwards.

1:15.0

So Elizabeth, Louise.

1:15.9

I'm very excited. Dr. Newsom.

1:18.0

I'm so excited because I feel like I've been stalking you for such a long time.

1:22.9

And just, like, I just love how transparent you are, how open you are.

1:27.2

And it sometimes can go the wrong way that people share too. like I just love how transparent you are, how open you are.

1:34.2

And it is sometimes can go the wrong way that people share too much and it can be a bit sort of over the top.

1:34.8

But it's not.

1:37.9

You just have this sort of air of gracefulness.

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