A Brighter Approach To Women's Health
Women’s health is sadly an area of ongoing gender discrimination. The majority of medicines being prescribed, treatment protocols being recommended and even health tips being given are based on testing outcomes for men.
Intelligent HRT
Women’s health is sadly an area of ongoing gender discrimination. The majority of medicines being prescribed, treatment protocols being recommended and even health tips being given are based on testing outcomes for men. As a result, many don't actually work very well for women and can even prove dangerous.
Women are not simply little men! We are inherently different to men on a cellular, metabolic, hormonal and functional level. Our bodies and minds also operate on a different clock - over 24 hours, over every month and over different stages of life.
This gender health gap is fuelling the gender leadership gap because if women aren’t feeling great mentally and physically, they cannot perform at their best.
Pre menopause/menopause is not ‘a phase’, it lasts for half of a women’s life, just as women compete for more senior leadership roles.
Turning things around requires more than a simple HRT prescription. It requires a smarter approach to women’s health.
When we prescribe HRT, we try to do so in a more intelligent way than the existing approach. GPs typically prescribe HRT in the complete absence of any testing to assess a woman’s starting hormone levels. Private consultants will typically carry out a blood test, which only tells you about a single point in time during the huge 24 hour variations we see in hormone levels.
We assess hormones across 24 hours. We also test to see if the patient will be able to detoxify the hormones sufficiently well and we also check to see if the thyroid or other likely neurotransmitter imbalances are bringing her down. Only then do we prescribe, with better accuracy.
At The Key Clinic, we aim to level the playing field for women at work, so they can truly thrive, particularly at a time when they need all the help they can get making it into senior roles.
Time for a Brighter Approach to Women’s Health.
Women are not ‘little men.’
The Gender Health Gap in traditional healthcare means that the drugs being prescribed, treatment protocols being followed and health tips being promoted are designed and tested on men. They don’t always work for women and can even prove dangerous.
We recognise that women are inherently different to men on a cellular, metabolic, hormonal and functional level.Their bodies and minds also operate on a different clock - over 24 hours, over every month and over different stages of life.
Understanding the balance between hormone variations, neurotransmitter predispositions and lifestyle variations is key to successful outcomes.
At The Key Clinic, we aim to level the playing field for women at work, so they can truly thrive.
Intelligent HRT Facts and Figures
Women’s health is sadly an area of ongoing gender discrimination. The majority of medicines being prescribed, treatment protocols being recommended and even health tips being given are based on testing outcomes for men. As a result, many don't actually work very well for women and can even prove dangerous.
Women are not simply little men! We are inherently different to men on a cellular, metabolic, hormonal and functional level. Our bodies and minds also operate on a different clock - over 24 hours, over every month and over different stages of life.
This gender health gap is fuelling the gender leadership gap because if women aren’t feeling great mentally and physically, they cannot perform at their best.
Pre menopause/menopause is not ‘a phase’, it lasts for half of a women’s life, just as women compete for more senior leadership roles.
Turning things around requires more than a simple HRT prescription. It requires a smarter approach to women’s health.
When we prescribe HRT, we try to do so in a more intelligent way than the existing approach. GPs typically prescribe HRT in the complete absence of any testing to assess a women’s starting hormone levels. Private consultants will typically carry out a blood test, which only tells you about a single point in time during the huge 24 hour variations we see in hormone levels.
We assess hormones across 24 hours. We also test to see if the patient will be able to detoxify the hormones sufficiently well and we also check to see if the thyroid or other likely neurotransmitter imbalances are bringing her down. Only then do we prescribe, with better accuracy.
At The Key Clinic, we aim to level the playing field for women at work, so they can truly thrive, particularly at a time when they need all the help they can get making it into senior roles.
Women’s health in numbers
Women over 50 are the fastest-growing group in the workforce, and 51 is the average age to go through the menopause (CIPD/YouGov).
Nearly eight out of 10 menopausal women are in work – that is, 4.4 million women aged 50-64 (CIPD/YouGov).
Three out of ten women have taken sick leave because of menopause symptoms but only a quarter felt able to tell their manager the real reason (CIPD/YouGov).
More than one in ten women say they have been treated unfairly by colleagues because they did not understand the discomfort they were experiencing from female health-related issues and 12pc say they have worked extra hours to accommodate lack of productivity (Bupa Health Clinics).
59% of working women aged 45-55 with symptoms of the menopause say it has a negative impact at work, with more than half saying it makes them less able to concentrate, more stressed and less patient with clients and colleagues (CIPD/YouGov).
Health conditions
85 % of working-age women have experienced at least 4 women's health conditions
23 % of women have taken time off work because of their period in the last 6 months
2 in 3 women feel uncomfortable talking about health issues with their workplace
25 % of people experiencing menopause consider leaving their job due to symptoms
88 % of women experience a mental health problem while pregnant or soon after giving birth
