In this week’s podcast, we discuss hormonal birth control and all the problems that come along with taking the pill. The pill is one of the most over prescribed drugs in today’s world and half the women who are prescribed the pill, don’t take it for birth control. They take it to manage hormonal issues for example acne and menstrual problems. The biggest complication with this is that it is only temporarily masking the issues causing the acne and menstrual problems instead of fixing the root of it. Those symptoms are likely to come back once you stop taking the pill and could come back even worse then before. 

Hormonal birth control has many side effects and those side effects don’t stop after you discontinue the pill. It has been shown that the pill can increase your odds of having a leaky gut which in itself increases your risk of developing an autoimmune disorder. This is one of the reasons woman are ten times more likely to develop autoimmune disorders over men. It’s been shown to negatively effect your thyroid too, which can drastically slow down your metabolism leading to weight gain. 

We finish our conversation with recommendations on more natural non-hormonal forms of birth control, as well as some nutritional advice that can make getting off the pill become more smoothly. To learn more about the pill and how it really effects the female body, listen to this week’s podcast.