Episode 399: Birth Control Options and Informed Consent

Are you on hormonal birth control and looking for alternative options? Have a teen who you want to talk to about birth control? Want to naturally balance your hormones without birth control? Tune in to hear us unpack the complicated history of birth control, potential side effects and risks, as well as natural ways to support your body’s rhythm. 

From hormonal birth control pills to injections to rings and IUDs, all birth control comes with risks and side effects. In this episode, we weigh out the cost-benefit and discuss how we’ll be addressing this topic with our own daughters when the time comes. Plus we talk about common hormonal symptoms from acne to mood swings to period pain and how to address them naturally.

Also in this episode: 

• • Episode 106 Regulating Your Cycle 
    • Episode 107: Regulating Your Cycle and Natural Birth Control
    • Episode 48: PCOS Part 1
    • Episode 49: PCOS Part 2
    • Episode 145: Endometriosis and Infertility
    • Episode 121: Keto and Women’s Hormones
    • Episode 232: Period Drama and Birth Control Updates
    • Episode 395: Women’s Hormones Test Don’t Guess
    • Natural Solutions for Painful Periods 
  • History of Birth Control
  • Phases of the Menstrual Cycle
  • Eating For Your Cycle
    • How to Hack Your Menstrual Cycle
    • Episode 335 Eating For Your Cycle

• Episode 149 Getting Your Cycle Back

• Birth Control Options
  • Women’s Flora Probiotic
• Hormonal Support 
• Acne
  • Beat the Bloat Cleanse
  • Microbiome Reboot
  • Women’s Flora
• Period Pain
  • BroccoDetox
  • EPA DHA Extra
  • Super Turmeric
  • Dutch Plus
  • Labrix Neurohormone
• Mood Concerns
  • Stress Manager Bundle
  • Adaptogen Boost
  • Relax and Regulate
• Perimenopause and Menopause
  • Dutch Plus
  • Episode 374: How to Naturally Increase Progesterone 
  • Bio-C Plus
  • B Complex
  • Women’s Health Bundle
• Dysbiosis 
  • Episode 285 UTIs, Yeast infections and Vaginal Dysbiosis
  • Women’s Flora

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