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and people who have experienced OCD.

Welcome to the OCD stories.

And welcome to episode 432 of the podcast and in this one I got on

Dr. Louise Newsom. Louise is a GP and Menopause specialist and co-founder of Newsom Health Menopause and Wellbeing Center,

an author of her new book The Definitive Guide to the Perry Menopause and Menopause.

So I got Louise on to talk about hormones and how they can impact us and especially

for women going through peremenopause and menopause. I'd like to thank Catherine for her questions for this episode and thank you to Anna for helping

connect me with Dr. Newsom and help make this episode possible.

So in it I ask Louise about her doctor's story, hormones and mental health, we talk about

PMDD or pre-M menstrual dysphoric disorder, the different hormones and their roles within mental health, some of the pari-manopause

and menopause symptoms in relation to mental health, hormone replacement therapy,

anxieties around hormone replacement therapy or HRT for short, other lifestyle factors that may help,

teenage hormones, men and hormones, and much, much more.

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