For example, the progestin levonorgestrel causes hair loss, but the body’s own progesterone stimulates hair growth. I love pizza but is it worth it if it is giving me insomnia and migraines and making me super tired? Unfortunately, its low dose progestin does enter the blood, and inadvertently suppress ovulation about 50 percent of the time. She runs a busy hormone clinic in Sydney where she treats women with PCOS, PMS, endometriosis, and many other period-related health problems.

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In Chapter 3 of my book, I classify contraceptive methods into three categories: 1) 100% safe and healthy, 2) a little bit toxic or damaging, and 3) total hormonal shut-down causing far-reaching physiologic damage. The only down fall is that she talks a lot about “no periods” and how to naturally bring them on/ reasons people have no periods.

No one wants you to suffer the loss of blood, embarrassment, cost and misery of bleeding all the time. There’s no third option because it’s not possible to ovulate but then not bleed except with the hormonal IUD, uterine ablation, or hysterectomy. I would recommend the readers to read the first chapters and then jump to the chapter of their individual problem instead of reading it from end to end as the author suggests.

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While the book has valid concerns about hormonal birth control, I’m not convinced that it has been as detrimental to women and women’s health as portrayed in the book. I see how some people in this thread are having a visceral reaction to what’s been suggested by this post, citing that the pill is the medicine that saved them or a loved one from pain, and I say to them…. This book contains a wealth of information about birth control (not just the pill, but all other types of hormonal and non-hormonal birth control), what your period should look and feel like, what underlying health problems could cause irregular periods or anovulatory cycles, menopause, PMS, endometriosis, PCOS, heavy bleeding, light bleeding, hypothyroidism, etc.According to a new study [1], this decade has seen a 50 percent jump in the number of young teens (12-15 years old) using medication such as Pills, injection, implant, and Nuvaring. You mention agonizing cramps but not the cause of your cramps or the other treatment options you were given. Sabiendo algo de la autora, no me extrañó ver cómo demonizaba los fármacos, entre ellos la píldora anticonceptiva. The progestin drospirenone increases the risk of blood clots, but progesterone improves cardiovascular health. She possibly gives out a three line paragraph at the very beginning of the book, and a wrong description of what it actually is, at the very end of the book.