And there is zero money in natural/body identical hormones because they are not patent-able drugs which can make big pharma loads of money - so there is no incentive for the research ever to be carried out. Who wants to wait for a bus which never comes, in the pouring rain?
And yes, it must be devastating for the women who developed health problems as a result of unbalanced hormones - but it is equally devastating for the billions of women who fail to receive high enough doses of estrogen on the NHS to adequately treat their symptoms. If I were on the NHS and didn't have access to the Newson Clinic, I would be shaking through the night, all night, jerking awake every time I begin to fall asleep and have my heart racing hard and fast all night.
No one would care about that, though - because it would be due to a withholding of care/medication, rather than through the application of medication. No heads would roll. Because we can't blame doctors for all the suffering which results because they are NOT prescribing something, can we? We can only find the minority of people who have suffered because they HAVE been prescribed something and then target those doctors.
'Do no harm' applies to refusing to prescribe and not just to prescribing. And there are so many women being HARMED through inadequate estradiol levels. Women who think they are fully protected against osteoporosis and then fall and fracture their pelvis and realise their estrogen levels are tiny. Women with cardiovascular disease and dementia, who wouldn't have these diseases if they had been able to absorb enough HRT from the max licensed dose - which they thought was protecting them.
So much harm being done, every day... from doctors who under-medicate, under-prescribe and under-treat. Far more than the very very few women they could rustle up who've been (arguably) over-treated.
Where's the TV programme about that, then?
There is zero money in natural/body identical hormones and big pharma are not interested.
They can make loads of money in the drugs they give to women who have gone on to develop menopausal related illness, arthritis, fibromyalgia, psych symptoms, insomnia, bone loss drugs, IBS drugs, and the list goes on.
I like your bus in the pouring rain analogy.
I like how Dr Newson says clinical evidence is important, as in, the droves of women she and her medics come across on a day to day basis. I think she might get data from that app she has, called "balance".
The panorama programme puzzled me as one lady who got cancer had her womb removed already.
There seemed a small group over years.
I agree, it is devastating for the billions of women who fail to receive high enough doses of estrogen on the NHS to adequately treat their symptoms.
I did not know some women just did not absorb oestrogen.
Oestrogen wise, in peri, 100mg sorted me out.
Your symptoms of shaking through the night, all night, jerking awake every time you begin to fall asleep and heart racing hard and fast all night, sound dreadful.
I understand Newson Health likes to pass patients back to the NHS, "WITH" the hormones they need, and say no one should have to go private for the hormones they deserve, that they lost, the absence of which not only cause symptoms, but those symptoms can mess your day up, insomnia etc, and also, for asymptomatic women, they are still missing hormones they lost and are at risk of future diseases which would be prevented if women were given what they need.
I began to resent my needs, still needing a fan by the bed this time of year, messy toilet visit on a morning with wiping and washing (sorry for TMI) and buried my head about possibly needing testosterone, as I had come against push-back when asking for oestrogen and progesterone back in 2014.
The NHS computer crunched the numbers in my testosterone blood test and said "No further action", yet the Newson Health doctor asked for my results and explained why I was feeling the way I was, as insufficient testosterone is available in my body.
Newson Health are better as they go on symptoms not bloods.
As for oestrogen you need whatever you need. The NHS are happy to increase mine if I need up to 100mcg.
Dr Newson thinks it is unethical to wait for women to suffer before prescribing and I tend to agree with her.
Depressingly, I watched a video of hers which made total sense, but it was four years old and we are no further forward.
We can't blame doctors for all the suffering which results because they are uneducated and untrained.
I do think the programme was a smear campaign against Dr Newson, but then again, we do smear revolutionaries don't we, look at Galileo and Pasteur to name just two.
I agree 'Do no harm' applies to refusing to prescribe and not just to prescribing.
Women are being HARMED through inadequate estradiol levels, as I said above, the symptoms themselves can cause harm. Lack of sleep, moods affecting others etc.
Lack of education is to blame, and whatever reason we and the Drs are uneducated for.
Dr Newson is trying to help womankind, and humanity, really, but mainstream establishments will never like this. I see her as a shining star. I love how she educated me with her FREE content.
