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On the Mones is where pharmacist, menopause myth-buster, and accidental midlife icon Kate Thomas breaks down the chaos of hormones, perimenopause, aging, wellness woo, and the medical misinformation flooding your feed.
Equal parts science and sass, Kate gives you evidence-based clarity with zero judgement and just the right amount of swearing.
Featuring:
🔬 Prescribe or Pass Deep Dives — real evidence, made simple
🔥 Woo of the Week — the latest miracle cure getting roasted
😂 Honest stories from midlife, pharmacy, and motherhood
🤷♀️ Peri or Petty — the viral quick-fire segment with Kate’s kids
🔧 The Tradie Brother-in-Law — asking the bloke questions all men are dying to ask
Smart, funny, heartfelt, and refreshingly human, On the Mones is the women’s health podcast you’ll actually look forward to each week.
Facts you can trust. Conversations you’ll replay. Validation you didn’t know you needed.
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In this special field-trip episode of On the Mones, pharmacist Kate Thomas heads to the Mind, Body, Spirit Festival in Sydney to explore one of the most fascinating corners of the modern wellness economy. Between handmade pottery and beeswax candles are stalls offering: • EMF harmonisers • orgone energy devices • pet psychics • “structured” frequency water • cannabinoid oils • crystal healing Some of it is beautiful. Some of it is harmless fun. And some of it makes some very ambitious claims ...
Can yoga, Pilates, tai chi and breathwork actually help menopause symptoms — or are we all just stretching our way through the placebo effect? In this first official Peri-odical Review, pharmacist Kate Thomas looks at the evidence behind mind-body exercise in perimenopause and menopause. We unpack what the research actually found, where these practices may genuinely help, and where wellness culture tends to get a little bit ahead of itself. In this episode: whether yoga and similar practices ...
In this episode of On the ’Mones, Kate shares a recording from a special event with women from a women’s shelter. The day began with breathwork and mindfulness overlooking the ocean — a moment to pause, breathe and arrive. For some of the women attending, simply leaving the shelter and coming to the event took enormous courage. Kate then spoke about hormones, perimenopause and what is actually happening in women’s bodies during midlife. From estrogen, progesterone and testosterone to sl...
In this episode of On the ’Mones, Kate explores a word many women recognise instantly: difficult. Recently Australian activist and former Australian of the Year Grace Tame was described publicly as “difficult” after speaking out politically. Whether or not you agree with her views, the label landed because women everywhere know that word — the one that appears when women stop being agreeable. Kate reflects on her own experience navigating leadership, advocacy and midlife reinvention — includi...
Pharmacist Kate Thomas interviews Dr Sarah Farrell, GP and principal of Sydney Women’s Wellness, about two major midlife health topics: breast awareness and genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM). We break down: • What “breast awareness” means today • How breast self-exams differ from formal breast cancer screening • When to see your GP about a breast lump • Breast density and mammograms • Why midlife breast changes can feel alarming We also explore genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM...
My first baby turns 21. So naturally, I sat him down with a microphone and asked him to explain perimenopause to the boys. What does a 21-year-old man think hormones are? Do young men talk about menopause? If boys had menopause, what would happen? There are one-word answers. There are finish-the-sentence confessions.. And somewhere in there, a mother realising her son is now a man. Then we turn into the reassuring comfort of biology with a clear, evidence-based masterclass on melatonin: • Wha...
Midlife reinvention isn’t glossy, curated, or hashtag-friendly — it happens while you’re still paying bills, packing lunches, and doing the work you already know how to do. In this episode of On the ’Mones, I reflect on standing on stage at a menopause education event in Sydney and asking myself a quiet but clarifying question: How did I get here? Not because I suddenly became more qualified — but because I finally gave myself permission to be visible. We talk about reinvention as access, pri...
Recorded on holiday in Hawaii, this episode of On the Mones starts on a beach and ends deep inside the nervous system. Watching her adult children in the surf, Kate reflects on bodies, confidence, ageing, and the subtle way awareness changes how we move through the world. From instinctive confidence to emerging caution, from physical capability to perimenopausal vigilance, this episode explores what happens when experience collides with embodiment — and how generational mirrors quietly hold u...
What if the thing that makes you feel safest… isn’t actually helping you? In this episode of On the Mones, Kate unpacks a deceptively simple idea with enormous consequences: comfort is not evidence. It starts with a respectful — but confronting — comment thread on a debunking video about naturopathy, vulnerability, and communication. From there, the conversation widens into something much bigger: why women in midlife are so often sold reassurance instead of rigour, validation instead of verif...
A ninety-year-old man walks into a community pharmacy, forgets his wallet… and pays for his prescriptions with Chaucer. A stranger steps in with quiet generosity. And somehow, that moment lodges — deeper than it would have twenty-five years ago. If you’ve noticed that things land differently in midlife — emotions linger longer, moments feel heavier, meaning matters more — you’re not imagining it. And if, at the same time, your periods have gone completely off the rails — heavier, ...
In this episode of On the ’Mones, Kate Thomas — pharmacist, midlife woman, and professional oversharer — tackles one of the most distressing and misunderstood parts of perimenopause: what’s actually happening to your brain. If you’ve found yourself forgetting words, losing focus, feeling anxious “for no reason,” questioning whether you suddenly have ADHD in your 40s, or quietly Googling early-onset dementia at 2am — this episode is for you. Because here’s the truth: You are not stupid. ...
Is testosterone really making women “ragey”… or is it just giving us fewer f*$ks to give? Or is it all down to age and experience? In Episode 4 of On the ’Mones, pharmacist Kate Thomas dives into one of the most misunderstood hormones in women’s health: testosterone. Along the way, she unpacks a petty (and infuriating) pharmacy encounter that sparks a much bigger conversation about boundaries, ageing, assertiveness, and how much bad behaviour women in healthcare are expected to tolerate. This...
In this episode of On the ’Mones, we unpack three things many women quietly worry about — progesterone, memory changes, and the wellness advice that sounds scientific but absolutely isn’t. First, we deep-dive into progesterone — why it’s not always a gentle background hormone, how it acts in the brain, and why some women feel calmer while others feel anxious, flat, or completely unhinged when they start it. We explain the real science behind "progesterone intolerance", PMDD, GABA receptors, a...
In Episode 2 of On the ’Mones, Kate starts with a moment many midlife women will recognise: a close friend, a few glasses of wine, a forgotten word — and the immediate dismissal of perimenopause as something “everyone else is doing.” That moment opens the door to a much bigger conversation. This episode explores why many women resist menopause care — even informed, health-literate women — and why perimenopause is often misunderstood as a “trend” rather than what it really is: a long-overdue c...
On the ’Mones — Episode 1: Welcome to the Hormonal Girl Band Is it just me… or is something seriously happening to my body? In the very first episode of On the ’Mones, pharmacist of 25 years Kate pulls back the curtain on peri-menopause, hormones, rage-quitting jobs, libido loss, bone health, and the quiet suffering so many women carry alone. From estrogen “leaving the group chat” to a friend breaking down in the kitchen whispering “I thought it was just me”, this episode sets the tone for th...
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