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"Many women use the birth control pill. It inhibits ovulation by altering hormone levels in the body. The use of birth control pills has been strongly linked to the development of Candidiasis. The birth control pill can The vagina may increase mucus production and encourage Candida overgrowth as a reaction to contact al- Conditions that promote yeast overgrowth: environmental changes, stress, using antibiotics, bacterial infection and eating allergenic foods. Yeast in Men? disrupt the delicate balance of bacteria in the body, and allow yeast to grow." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"At the age of 161 saw a gynecologist who suggested birth control pills. I was raised a strict Irish-Catholic, but Mom was open to anything that might help me. Within 2 months of starting birth control pills, my skin was considerably better! I am one of those people whose body loves the pills. As soon as I stop taking them, my skin starts to break out. I hope my experience will help convince that mother that birth control pills could be the magic she wants for her daughter. A. When all else fails, birth control pills can be helpful. The hormones counteract testosterone." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"The use of birth control pills has been strongly linked to the development of Candidiasis. The birth control pill can The vagina may increase mucus production and encourage Candida overgrowth as a reaction to contact al- Conditions that promote yeast overgrowth: environmental changes, stress, using antibiotics, bacterial infection and eating allergenic foods. Yeast in Men? disrupt the delicate balance of bacteria in the body, and allow yeast to grow. Probiotics have the ability to prevent yeasts ability to grow." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Menstruation, pregnancy, excess salt intake, and certain medications, such as antidepressants and birth control pills, can also cause fluid retention and, of course, bags. Conversely, bags can also be a sign of the dehydration caused by alcohol, so they may be our body's way of telling us that we're drinking too much. Fluid can also accumulate around our eyes while we sleep, which is why we often wake up with puffy eyes. STOP SIGN Sleeping with your head elevated may help reduce fluid retention under the eyes." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Then, in 1960, the FDA approved it as a birth control pill, and just three years later more than 1 million women were using it. Today about 35 million women use some type of contraception, about 17 million of whom take one of the several kinds of oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) currently available, and new types are regularly introduced. For example, in May 2007 the FDA approved the first pill, called Lybrel, that if taken daily halts women's menstrual periods indefinitely and prevents pregnancies." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Have you ever taken birth control pills? 6 Have you ever taken cortisone, prednisone or any other steroid drug? 7 Have you any digestive troubles such as constipation/diarrhea, bloating, heartburn or indigestion? 8 Have you any PMS symptoms? 9 Has your sex drive decreased? 10 Have you had, or do you now have recurring bladder/kidney, vaginal or prostate infections? n Are you sensitive to perfumes, smoke or chemical odors? 12 Are you troubled with skin problems, such as rashes or hives, for example? 13 Do you have any joint or muscular aches?" - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Estrogen dominance can arise as a result of many factors, including the intake of estrogen-like chemicals via our foods and environment, hormone replacement therapy, drugs such as birth control pills, improper diets, and prolonged stress. Associated health problems that can develop are: weight gain (mostly around the waist), decreased libido, anxiety, depression, lack of mental clarity, and lack of energy. Women can experience difficult menstrual periods, painful breasts, and cyclical mood swings." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Fitzpatrick estimated that an infant exclusively fed soy formula receives the estrogenic equivalent (based on body weight) of at least five birth control pills per day. By contrast, almost no phytoestrogens have been detected in dairy-based infant formula or in human milk, even when the mother consumes soy products.16 Fitzpatrick's research confirmed problems Richard and Valerie James were encountering with their own two children, and which other parents were recounting to them about children fed soy-based formula." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Acidophilus cultures in the colon, which are one of the main defenses against yeast overgrowths, are destroyed, thereby allowing yeast to proliferate. birth control pills, because they contain steroid hormones and upset the normal hormonal balance of the body, can encourage yeast growth. Excessive and continued stress over-stimulates the adrenal glands, causing them to release steroid hormones, which can depress the immune system." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"This would be the estrogenic equivalent of at least five birth control pills per day. For this reason, premature development of girls (early puberty) has been linked to the use of soy formula, as has the underdevelopment of males. Infant soy formula and soy milk have been linked to autoimmune-thyroid disease, and now also to death. In 2007, two parents were convicted of murder and given life sentences in prison for starving their 6-week-old baby to death by feeding it with soy milk and apple juice." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Synthetic hormone repla cement drugs such as Premarin, Prempro, Femhrt, Menest, Ortho-Est, Activella, and many other brand names, as well as birth control pills, contribute to the development or worsening of estrogen dominance. Many doctors routinely continue to prescribe synthetic hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms, such as hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, and moodiness. These prescription drugs are composed of synthetic estrogen or a synthetic estrogen and progestin combination." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"The trial involved a relatively new Parke-Davis drug, Loestrin, a low-estrogen birth control pill. Using the new IMS-Medco data, Vanderveer answered a number of questions about how to market the drug effectively: Which physicians were already high pre-scribers of birth control pills? Who, among them, was already overly committed to competitors like Ortho? Knowing that would tell Parke-Davis not to waste marketing dollars on that physician." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Caution about the new birth control pill: Lybrel recently launched Wyeth Pharmaceuticals' new birth control pill that eliminates women's periods. Women on the new pills do not menstruate, unlike those on the original oral contraceptives, which include a week of placebo pills at the end of the cycle to bring on menstruation. Since the drug has only been tested for one year (I wonder why), there is no way of knowing what the long-term side effects will be." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Galactorrhea can be a reaction to both prescription and illicit drugs, including birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy, antipsychotics, antidepressants, antihypertensives, marijuana, opiates, and steroids. A milky discharge can also be a sign you've been eating a lot of phytoestrogen-containing herbs, such as nettle, fennel, blessed thistle, anise, and fenugreek seed. The estrogen in these herbs can cause milk to flow. Leaking milk can also signal several hormone-related conditions, including a pituitary tumor (prolactinoma) and hypothyroidism. (See Appendix I." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Combinations of estrogen and progestin such as those found in low-dose birth control pills suppress FSH and LH. Mild-to-moderate pain relief is achieved because the body's own estrogen production is decreased. In addition, since the volume of menstrual flow is also decreased, less blood is theoretically available for reflux into the pelvic cavity. Current research shows promising results in the use of the antiprogesterone Ru-486 due to the regression of endometriosis and possible minimal side effects. Clinical trials are underway." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Depending on dosage, they can be very potent and linger in the body for a long time. birth control pills work by keeping estrogen at such a falsely high level that the body is fooled into responding as if it were pregnant. Therefore, ovulation does not occur. Chapter 3 addresses the dangers of synthetic hormones in greater detail. why the symptoms are often misdiagnosed When Sylvia in Chapter 1 first complained of the "love-handle blues," her previous doctor responded by giving her a prescription for antidepressants." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) "If your personal choice is to use birth control pills for contraception, use for the shortest term possible. APPENDIX C Resources Please note: The contact information listed in this section is current as of the publication of this book. Hormone Health The Natural Hormone Institute of America When Genie James and I cofounded The Natural Hormone Institute of America in 2003, we had two goals in mind. The first was to create a vehicle to educate both the medical community and healthcare consumers about the safety and efficacy of bio-identical hormone therapies." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) "It is also found in the synthetic estrogen and progesterone (chemically termed progestin) of birth control pills and hormone therapies; these synthetic hormones are secreted in women's urine, are flushed down the toilet, and eventually make their way back into the food chain. Over time, these foreign estrogens can dangerously accumulate and increase the estrogen load in the body. People living in the United States and in western Europe have been found to have much higher estrogen levels at much younger ages than people living in less industrialized countries." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Many women experience hair loss a few months after they stop taking birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy. Interestingly, hair loss slows and hair growth accelerates during pregnancy. The result: a fuller- and thicker-looking head of hair. Unfortunately, this windfall doesn't last; three to four months after a woman gives birth, the extra hairs shed rapidly. The good news is that hair growth will return to normal and the new moms will once again have full heads of hair, probably by the time their babies do." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "With or without these other signs, hirsutism can be an unfortunate reaction to hormone-containing drugs, such as birth control pills, steroids, fertility drugs, and testosterone. And not surprisingly, excess hair growth can be a side effect of minoxidil M..........la In 15th-century England, women shaved their pubic hair to keep lice at bay. They covered up the bare spots with merkins— pubic wigs. Merkins were also popular among prostitutes for another reason: they covered up the telltale signs of syphilis and other venereal diseases." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"All of the women were on birth control pills both before and during the study. After treatment, Pap-smear results were significantly improved in the folic-acid group, but they were unchanged in the placebo group.11 Our experience suggests that folic acid may also help improve Pap smears in women who are not taking birth control pills. Folic acid also has been shown to have an intriguing relationship with the human papilloma virus (HPV), the virus that causes genital warts. Infection with HPV is known to increase a woman's risk of developing cervical dysplasia." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Certain medications such as steroids, birth control pills and hormone replacement drugs deplete Vitamin B stores. One can safely take 50 to 100 mgs of B complex daily with meals. Calcium and Magnesium, 2:1 ratio Take a 2:1 ratio of calcium to magnesium. It is an alkalinizing mineral that helps to absorb the stomach acid. Take in between meals. Typical daily dosage would be 800 to 1200 mgs of calcium and 400 to 600 mgs of magnesium. It is best to split this into two or three doses throughout the day. Calcium carbonate is a better buffer for acid than calcium citrate or calcium hydroxyapatite." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"As an obstetrical nurse, Sanger saw countless deaths from childbirth and botched abortions; this experience persuaded her to dedicate her life to birth control, a term she coined. Her birth-control clinic, the first of its kind, led to her arrest in 1917 for creating a "public nuisance," but it swayed public opinion in favor of birth control. In 1921 she founded the American birth control League, which evolved into Planned Parenthood Federation of America; Sanger was its first honorary chairman. Sappho b. Lesbos, Asia Minor, ca. 610 B.C.; d. ?s8o B.C. Greek lyric poet." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"There are other approaches teaching mental birth control, such as a self-hypnosis (tape) by Barrie Konicov. (Do a Google search for mental birth control.) Other methods include "Fertility Testers," which can determine the days of the month in which a woman is fertile. All that is required is a drop of her saliva. "Persona" is another new method of contraception. Through simple urine testing, a small, computerized device informs a woman of the days she is at risk for becoming pregnant. " - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Selenium acts as a birth control pill to the virus," Berkson told me. The herb milk thistle (silymarin) is a premier liver nutrient. The active ingredient in milk thistle is silymarin, which is believed to be responsible for its medicinal qualities. Milk thistle has been used in Europe as a treatment for liver disease since the sixteenth century. The Supporting Cast of Liver-Friendly Nutrients There are a number of other really important nutrients you should consider as part of a liver health/hep-C-fighting program. N-A-C (N-acetyl-cysteine)." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "They're also frequently low in women taking birth control pills or the hormone replacement drug Premarin. Imagine how many depressed people could be helped just by adding B6 to their diet or supplement regimen—it would help to raise serotonin levels, thus acting as a kind of "natural Prozac." In this country we're spending upward of $12 billion a year (2004) on antidepressant drugs, and the current thought is that 2 5 percent of people are misdiagnosed or overdiag-nosed as depressed. Imagine what could be done with a little vitamin like B6." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Major excesses of breast cancer have long been documented in women who have used birth control pills for long periods of time; the same has been documented since 1991 in women who have been on long-term estrogen replacement therapy. While smoking tobacco is the single most important cause of cancer, causes of cancer not related to smoking still account for about 75 percent of the increased incidence of cancer in the U.S. and other major industrialized nations since the 1950s ( 8). It's very likely cosmetics and personal care products are a significant part of that." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"For women who don't want to become pregnant, docs will sometimes use birth control pills to help regulate menstrual cycles, clear up acne, and reduce levels of male hormones, but the Pill does not cure PCOS. Metformin, a drug known by its trade name of Glucophage, is often given to people with diabetes or metabolic syndrome because it helps the body utilize insulin more effectively Research published in the British Medical Journal and elsewhere shows that metformin is effective in helping women with PCOS achieve ovulation, and it reduces insulin concentrations and blood pressure as well." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The Nurses' Health Study researchers statistically adjusted their results for many potentially confounding factors: body weight, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, early heart attack in a parent, history of breast cancer in mother or sister, previous use of birth control pills, number of children, age of onset of period, diet, alcohol use, multivitamin use, vitamin E use, aspirin use, and regular exercise. Despite this meticulous statistical caution, however, the most elegant aspect of the Nurses' Health Study may also have been its tragic flaw." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

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