Do you know someone whos experienced side effects from being on the birth control pill? The pill is prescribed like candy for many reasons even beyond birth control, and most of the time - doctors fail to acknowledge how pumping your body with synthetic hormones can affect you over time. For starters, the birth control pill depletes vitamins and minerals from the body like selenium, zinc and tyrosine, which are needed for proper thyroid function, stomach acid secretion, and proper neurotransmitter function - to name a few. In a world where the modern diet is already deficient in many important nutrients, including quality fats and protein needed for brain health and to build hormones, the pill can be a significant cause of hormonal imbalances, and depression and anxiety. As a vegetarian in my early twenties, eating a diet low in fat and void of quality protein, you can imagine what going on the birth control pill did to my mental and emotional health. In addition, birth control pills flood our bodies with high doses of artificial estrogen and progesterone, leading our own production of natural hormones to turn off, preventing ovulation and thinning the uterine lining. This can lead to a hormonal imbalances such as estrogen dominance. Check out the other ways the pill can affect your health from Thyroid Pharmacist, Dr. Izabella Wentz --> thyroidpharmacist/blog/why-women-with-hashimotos-should-ditch-the-birth-control-pill-and-choose-natural-family-planning
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:30:01 +0000
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