DeepSummary
Dr. Josh Axe discusses the truth about birth control and its impact on women's health. He questions why the media is trying to keep women on birth control, suggesting it is connected to promiscuity and financial ties with pharmaceutical companies. He provides statistics on the prevalence of birth control usage among women aged 15-49.
Axe delves into the side effects of various birth control methods, including nutrient depletion, lowered sex drive, thyroid issues, depression, anxiety, candida overgrowth, autoimmune diseases, and increased cancer risk. He emphasizes that these side effects are often not disclosed on labels or by doctors.
Axe advocates for natural birth control methods like tracking cycles, basal body temperature, cervical mucus, and cervical position. He shares his personal experience using a fertility monitor with his wife for family planning. He also addresses the ethical and moral aspects of birth control's promotion of promiscuity, which he believes is unhealthy physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Birth control, especially oral contraceptives, has numerous side effects that are often not disclosed, including nutrient depletion, hormonal imbalances, autoimmune diseases, and increased cancer risk.
- The media and pharmaceutical companies have vested interests in promoting birth control and promiscuity, which Dr. Axe believes is unhealthy physically, mentally, and spiritually.
- Natural family planning methods, such as tracking cycles, basal body temperature, and cervical mucus, offer effective alternatives to hormonal birth control.
- Dr. Axe advocates for addressing the root causes of menstrual irregularities and cramps through lifestyle changes rather than suppressing them with birth control.
- Prolonged birth control usage, particularly for more than five years, can significantly increase the risk of developing autoimmune diseases like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
- While birth control may reduce the risk of certain cancers, the risk of breast cancer and cervical cancer is substantially higher for users.
- Dr. Axe personally utilized a fertility monitor and the calendar method with his wife for family planning, exemplifying his endorsement of natural alternatives.
- The promotion of promiscuity through birth control is viewed by Dr. Axe as detrimental to physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, aligning with his moral and religious beliefs.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “The way that it's touted today by most society is take birth control, have as much sex outside of marriage as you want, be as promiscuous as you want, have a lot of sexual partners. The reality is that's not healthy in body, mind or spirit for anyone.“ by Doctor Josh Axe
- “According to the results of a Harvard nurses health study, women who take the birth control pill for five years or more have a three times greater increased chance of developing autoimmune diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and Sjogren's disease as well.“ by Doctor Josh Axe
- “Now, I want to share the method that my wife and I used called the calendar or rhythm method, in order to, for our own family planning. And this method involves tracking menstrual cycles over several months and could be even years.“ by Doctor Josh Axe
- “It's important to understand that women, now this isn't even saying that you're gonna get on an antidepressant, but women who take birth control have a 130% increased risk of developing depression, according to this recent study.“ by Doctor Josh Axe
- “Now, I do want to mention that if a woman is using birth control, they have around a 30% reduction while they're taking it, of endometrial and ovarian cancers, and a 12% reduction in colorectal cancers. But the reality is there are far, far more greater cancers of breast cancer than there are of colorectal or uterine.“ by Doctor Josh Axe
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The Dr. Josh Axe Show
Dr. Josh Axe
5/7/24