Birth Control, Estrogen...the effects

So is anyone else completely taken a back at how easily birth control is prescribed to young females, sometimes to girls as young as 13! Just for having sketchy menstration patterns and a bit of acne! It's sickening. I feel like we as women, are being taken advantage of by "modern medicine" and generally this involves giving us pills that play with our hormones and later on cause major health issues such as abnormal skin pigmentation, kidney stones, cancer and blood clotting.

It's not only young women either, it's those going through menopause, they throw them on estrogen as well, to lessen the effects of the things that their body is naturally going through.

I feel as though there's no research going in to important (and simple) things like the food we eat, stress we bottle up and habbits that are harmful to us. I've suffered from acne my entire teenage years and have hopped from birth control to birth control as prescribed to my by my physician. Recently I had met a very influential health teacher who informed me of how my body actually works and how my food choices could actually change the appearance of my skin. No one wants to believe that eating shitty foods is going to effect their skin...but realistically how could it not?

Here's some tips for dealing with hormonal acne AND meonopause:
Zinc Citrate (less than 100mg a day)--helps liver produce vitaman A
Lemon in your water
Exterminate processed foods and sugars from your diet (replace with fruit etc)--sugar basically takes everything the body needs away from it
Eat foods with phyto-estrogens (chick peas, red clover tea..)
Reduce your stress levels (yoga, exercise in general, talking to a friend)


I don't know if anyone else feels as completely screwed over as I did, but it's as if the information that seems to make complete sense, like changing your lifestyle a bit to better suit what your body needs is being replaced with the newest birth control pill or estrogen drug that doctors can profit off of.

 

its the government taking over as usual they push drugs on all young people to opress them

 

i take birth control to control whether or not i will give birth, thanks. and thats why i originally went on them as well, to prevent pregnancy.

 

My mom got breast cancer. Abnormally high levels of estrogen have been linked to breast cancer... like those found in women taking hormone replacement therapy.

 

After reading a bit, I decided for myself that hormonal birthcontrol is not for me. But it also has never been pushed on me.

I just think, that there are other means of bc that don't pollute my body with artificial hormones all month.

 

i'm not against birth control actually i am on it cause i really donot feel a baby is right for me at this time but the fact that they put it in young girls just to control acne and really heavy flows in terrible. what did women do before birth control they dealt with the problem in a more natural way

 

Just to be the annoying analytical one...

Your liver does not produce vitamin A, it produces vitamin K. Vitamin A is found naturally in carrots and other colored vegetables.

I agree with the whole getting-rid-of-processed food stuff, but be careful to demonize all sugars--the only source of energy your brain can use is glucose, a polysaccaride sugar. Every single thing you eat is eventually converted into sugar.

Sorry, but I just see this as common sense. But maybe that's just me. I think women should inform themselves and make their own decisions based on their lifestyles etc. If it works for you, great. But some women would rather take bc and should have the choice to do so.

 

I think bc can really help,i was only 14 when i was suggested bc pills,because i had an ovarian cyst and insane periods,and it helped me. I dont think doctors push it on people,and ive never heard of anyone just taking it for acne.