38 - Why hormone education matters for every clinician

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr Louise Newson and Dr Rebecca Lewis discuss the role of hormone education in modern clinical practice and why so many women are still affected by gaps in training.

Drawing on their years of running a large menopause clinic and developing educational resources for healthcare professionals, they reflect on what clinicians are taught, what’s missing and how that affects diagnosis, prescribing and long-term health.

They explain how their original training programme, Confidence in Menopause, was created to give clinicians practical, case-based teaching at a time when menopause education was minimal. They’ve now taken time to update the programme, now called Confidence in Hormones, so it’s expanded beyond menopause to include PMS, PMDD, POI and other hormone-related conditions.

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0:00.0	Today on my podcast, I'm talking about education for healthcare professionals.
0:04.4	A lot of my work is educating women and men about hormonal changes,
0:08.2	but we have to educate healthcare professionals.
0:11.5	Because if we don't, we're not going to move forwards.
0:14.7	We're not going to help future health of women if we keep ignoring the importance of hormones.
0:20.6	So today, Dr Rebecca Lewis, who co-founded the clinic, balance app, our education, our research.
0:27.3	She keeps me together.
0:29.2	She's on the podcast talking about the importance of our education program, which we've revamped,
0:34.3	we've improved, we've updated.
0:36.3	It's just a really exciting time for
0:38.1	healthcare professionals to learn about hormones. Rebecca, this is not your first time on the
0:45.6	podcast, but it's the first time in these lovely studios with Jack, who is the most amazing person.
0:51.0	So I wanted to talk today about education because, well, for those people that
0:55.8	don't know, first off, you and me founded the clinic. We did, yes. Many years ago.
1:02.0	Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And we founded Balance App many years ago. Yes. 2018 and 2019. That sort of
1:10.1	era, wasn't it?
1:11.1	And we also founded News and Education.
1:14.6	We also founded the research.
1:17.3	We also cemented our friendship.
1:19.4	Yes.
1:20.7	We weren't really hard.
1:23.2	Yeah.
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