Holy Hormones Journal: Although this article is almost two years old - it is as relevant today as it was then...and as it was in the 1990's when we first heard about the devastating affects of birth control and other endocrine disruptors on the ecosystem - changing the sex in fish. Today those same chemicals are changing the sex in humans. We are seeing this with the rise in … [Read more...]
Birth Control Side Effects & Secrets
Women need to keep the conversation on birth control going. One way to do that is to know about the "racist and sexist history" of keeping birth control side effects a secret. Holy Hormones Journal: Hello, readers - I am hoping some of you might have noticed an absence in posts on this site. As you can see we have created a new template and model for the Holy Hormones … [Read more...]
Risk of developing blood clots on hormonal birth control is real
Holy Hormones Journal - 95% of women of reproductive age in the US are on some form of contraception - and I am sure that the majority of the methods used are hormonal. I have recently become involved with my colleague's project on conducting an independent analysis of birth control and blood clots. There are too many women who have been injured or who have died from the … [Read more...]
Holly Grigg-Spall on shared and birth control conversation
Holy Hormones Journal: Just because women fought for the right to control their bodies via access to contraception and abortion does not dis-include men from the conversation. And yet, that is exactly what has happened. And since the first synthetic hormonal contraceptives came on the market in the late 1960's - women have bore the brunt of responsibility while the largest … [Read more...]
Mind Altering Effects of the Pill
Holy Hormones Journal: There are so many things we have not known about the pill and other hormonal contraceptives over the years...but now that science has caught up with women's intuition - we can certainly see the common sense side of the pill - which suppresses vital areas of the brain that can also effect the neurological system - affecting our mind, moods and … [Read more...]