Emily Detrick, @littleraeofhealth on Instagram, is a certified health coach who specializes in “helping women balance their hormones naturally, primarily using food as medicine.”
In this episode of “Relatable,” Emily joins Allie Beth Stuckey to discuss the sinister (and often ignored) side of birth control.
After a long and difficult journey to her own healing, Emily discovered the negative effects of birth control on hormones.
Many women will recall being told by their doctors that birth control has a variety of benefits, including regulating periods and balancing hormones, but Emily says those are lies.
“The minute I went off birth control, I felt a million times better,” she told Ally, adding, “It felt like I was coming home.” [herself]”
“Basically, none of it is good,” she explains. She said contraception “doesn’t regulate anything,” so she “doesn’t think any woman should need to use it for any reason.”
For those who believe that birth control can control periods, Emily says that “birth control doesn’t make you get periods,” but rather that “you stop using fake hormones,” like “fake progesterone or fake estrogen.” He testified that it was due to withdrawal bleeding.
And to those who praise non-hormonal contraceptive methods, such as the increasingly popular copper IUD, Emily says that not only is “copper toxicity a big problem,” copper also “increases estrogen” and that it actually to “[inflames] your womb. ”
Additionally, teens and young women who are on birth control are “70% more likely to be prescribed antidepressants or anti-anxiety medications.”
But apparently that’s not the only “psychological impact” of hormonal contraception.
“If you’re on the pill, you’re more likely to be bisexual. Taking the pill can actually change who you’re attracted to,” Ally said, citing Dr. Sarah Hill. Take it out and say it. She added: “I’ve also heard the argument that if a woman is on the pill, she might be attracted to more feminine men.”
“This is true,” says Emily. “We have the data, we have the research” to back this up.
one of ” [studies] “What they did was they showed women on birth control… AI mock-ups of men and slightly feminized their features,” Emily explains. “Women on birth control chose men with more feminine characteristics.”
There was also a study called the “Sweaty T-shirt Test,” which involved “having a variety of men exercise in sweaty T-shirts and then putting them in their bags.” Next, the female subjects (some on birth control, some not) were asked to “sniff, or smell the pheromones.”
Researchers found that “women on birth control chose the odor of men who were genetically similar to themselves,” but that “the most viable and resilient offspring” This is a problem, Emily says, given that it requires “someone with the most distant DNA.”
Watch the episode below to learn more.
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