The Greatest Story Never Told
Holy Hormones Journal: “Estrogen is to cancer as fertilizer is to wheat.” 1970 Senate testimony on the birth control pill – given by a ‘male’ medical expert. What else needs to be said? Except women have been force fed synthetic hormones in the form of HRT and birth control for another 40 some odd years. Continue Reading …
Leslie Carol Botha: Well, it appears that the message – you don’t’ need to have a period is finally getting through to women. Women are taking their hormone contraceptives and using them for their own gain? But are they really? It might be convenient to ‘alter the menstrual cycle’ around a woman’s busy schedule – Continue Reading …
So why is it that around 3.7 million women in the UK are currently taking ‘the Pill’, and around 100 million worldwide? The keenest uptake is among the young. An incredible 64 per cent of women aged between 20 and 24 are on the Pill, more than in any other age group.
Women and their physicians need more data about the uses, efficacy and side-effects of oral contraceptives. There is a lack of data about the general health of girls and women who use oral contraceptives and about the efficacy of these pills in treating non-birth-control related conditions. The purpose of this survey is to fill that data void; to learn more about the off-label uses for oral contraceptives – why birth control pills are prescribed and whether or not they work for the host of non-birth-control related conditions.
This article raises good points – Lance Armstrong along with other athletes have been damned for taking steroids to enhance their athletic performance. But then we calmly accept the suppression of ovulation and the suppression of millions of women who are on synthetic hormone steroids. How can women be at their peak when their neuro-endo-immune system is being altered?
The pill came out more than 50 years ago, and at the time, it was a symbol of liberation and freedom for women. Suddenly, they no longer had to worry about unplanned pregnancy. It was great. But now that 50-year-old technology is starting to lose much of the appeal it once had.
In the past forty years, millions of women around the world have been given the Pill in such a way as to maximize their pain and suffering. And to what end? To pretend that the Pill was no more than a pharmaceutical version of the rhythm method?
SMCR member and menstrual health advocate, Laura Wershler has written a brilliant exposé on the new movement in birth control: LARCs – long-acting reversible contraceptives filled with synthetic hormones dripping into women’s bloodstreams. We may think we have fought and won the struggle for the right to birth control…. but it appears to many that forcing women into these types of contraceptives takes their choices away – placing them in the hands of physicians…
When women come off the pill they are hormonally whacked – and husbands also struggle with this transition. They marry women ‘high’ on hormones and when they come down they are mental/emotional wrecks.
50% of women who will experience general negative mood effects that surely impact on their interest in sex. Many, many other studies have shown a clear negative effect on libido whilst using hormonal contraceptives. So many that it’s become something of a joke to roll eyes over the “irony” of prescribing a pill for pregnancy prevention that stops you wanting to have sex anyway.
