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The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

64 – Estrogen: separating fear from fact

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7933 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Why are so many women still being told estrogen is dangerous?

In this episode, Dr Louise Newson is joined by oncologist and author of Estrogen Matters, Dr Avrum Bluming, to explore how fear around hormones took hold and why it persisted for so long. They also revisit the evidence behind the Women’s Health Initiative and discuss what it actually shows about risks and benefits.

Together, they unpack the role of estrogen in the body and why having the right information is key to making informed choices about treatment.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So Avran Blooming, I feel very excited to have you back on my podcast.

0:07.0

This is the third time.

0:08.7

And we met many years ago before the podcast started.

0:13.1

And I was in London at the Royal Society.

0:15.7

I was giving a lecture and you were there.

0:18.6

And you just helped me open my eyes because sometimes in medicine

0:23.4

when you think differently you have doubts and you think really it's so obvious maybe I'm

0:29.7

missing something and then you came and you had just written your book Eastergen matters

0:34.7

and you had some slides that just had a few sentences on, very few

0:39.5

about estrogen and heart disease and osteoporosis dementia. And I just thought, wow,

0:46.1

he's just speaking a language, but you're just so, it's also obvious, but it's become so

0:52.3

confusing. So, so you have from a very esteemed oncologist,

0:57.9

physician, a thinker, very inspiration. And actually, you, you, you don't know it really,

1:03.9

but you are great mental to me because you're so solid in how you are. And when I wobble,

1:08.9

I just think about you and it really helps me.

1:12.6

But let's just think about estrogen.

1:15.1

It's a hormone.

1:17.3

Hormones are chemical messengers that have a role in our bodies.

1:21.6

And somehow, for the last 30 years, especially or so, maybe 40 years, people have become very scared

1:29.5

of our own hormone.

1:31.9

And it just feels a bit weird almost.

1:34.2

If I didn't know any medicine at all and didn't know any politics, didn't know any history,

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