Oestrogen Expert: Birth Control Changes Who You Are...Would You Still Love Them If You Came Off It?! Oestrogen Makes You More Attractive!

Are you saying that it recommends that a woman for a partner gets off the birth control pill until they find one? Yeah, I mean researchers found when women who were partnered to attractive men went off hormonal birth control, they were more attracted to their partner. But for women who were partnered with less attractive partners, they became less attracted to their partners and reported being less sexually satisfied. It's quite frightening. Dr. Sarah Hill is a leading research psychologist and professor uncovering the shocking effects the contraceptive pill has had on women, relationships, and society, and what we can do about it. There's been nothing more instrumental to women's ability to be able to achieve independence than the birth control pill. And so we're very cavalier in just giving it to people. Oh well, you should go on it for this and he should go on it for that, but it has huge costs. And when I started to dig into the research, I found there's at least five different things the birth control pill does to change who we are.

And these risk factors, they're swept under the rug by their doctors who are prescribing it. First, it changes our emotional states with increased risk for developing anxiety and depression. And then it influences our ability to put on muscle mask. And it can also affect our sexual function because it turns off that estrogen surge that makes us feel sexier and makes us want to have sex. And there's war, but we also know that it affects men in two different ways. And this has implications for society around us. I'll tell you why. So So what are the alternatives for women? Let's dive down into that.

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