In industrialized nations today, synthetic hormonal oral contraception (aka the birth control pill) is the most common practice for preventing pregnancy. Despite evidence suggesting that there are many possible dangers of birth control pills, millions of women choose to take these hormonal medications every year. It’s been found that dangers of birth control pills can include […]
My functional MD and ND friends always say that the pill is the worse thing medicine invented for women. I could relate, to some degree, to this strong statement based on my own experience of being on the pill for a short period until I realized how sick it made me feel. But, writing this […]
Why I stopped taking “the pill”? Like many young women, I was prescribed birth control pills long before I was ever worried about sex. At the urging of my mother, I took a visit to my dermatologist to get my first prescription while still in high school. Of course, I wasn’t worried about pregnancy at the […]
How does the Pill work? Quite simply, it shuts off your body’s internal hormone production system. The Pill supplies your body with synthetic estrogen and progestin to inhibit natural cyclical hormones. The Pill changes your cervix’ mucus cycles to prevent sperm from traveling upwards. Some forms of the Pill even affect the structure of your […]
