Mental & Physical Health Risks of Birth Control For Girls

My guest this week is Dr. Jolene Brighten, a functional naturopathic medical doctor and nutritional biochemist with a focus in women’s endocrine health. She is recognized as a leading expert in Post-Birth Control Syndrome and the long-term side effects associated with hormonal contraceptives. Dr. Brighten is the author of ‘Beyond the Pill: A 30-Day Program to Balance Your Hormones, Reclaim Your Body, and Reverse the Dangerous Side Effects of the Birth Control Pill’. She is a speaker, women’s health advocate and a medical advisor for one of the first data-driven apps to offer women personalized birth control recommendations.

In this episode, Dr. Brighten and I discuss the physical and mental health risks of hormonal birth control and the importance of informed consent before taking it. Side effects can vary from anxiety and depression to increased risk for stroke, heart attack, thyroid and adrenal disorders. Dr. Brighten provides us with a careful approach to the pill and how to monitor and maintain one’s health while on the pill. Teenage girls specifically are 80% percent more likely to develop depression when taking the combination pill of estrogen and progestin. Those who are on “the pill” have a double risk of suicide after one year of taking it. Learn more about Dr. Brighten here.

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