Water Pollution Caused by Birth Control Poses Dilemma (2012)

https://www.livescience.com/20532-birth-control-water-pollution.html

by walterbell • 2 years ago

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teslabox2• 2 years ago

Estrogens tell the body's tissues to 'swell and divide'. It's a stress hormone, for both women and men.

Advocates for hormonal birth control have an unstated rule: 'do not talk about the problems of hormonal birth control'.

It's farcical that preteen and teenage girls are commonly put on birth control by their doctor becuase they're having very difficult periods, not because they don't want to get knocked up by their 7th-grade classmate.

Lots of women I know trialed and discontinued birth control. I've found lots of reports from women who didn't realize how adversely they'd been affected by these pills, until they discontinued after a decade+ had passed...

cypherg• 2 years ago

proof that HN comments are just as uninformed and insane as the rest of the internet...sigh

teslabox2• 2 years ago

The xeno-estrogen Ethinylestradiol is used in birth control pills because it is more resistant to degradation by the liver than bio-identical hormones.

Birth control use one of a variety of Progestins, instead of bio-identical Progesterone USP, for the same reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethinylestradiol

If you could share what specifically you found to be "uninformed and insane" in my comment, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

K0balt• 2 years ago

Idk.

Hormonal contraceptives are widely used and considered safe, but my experience with them by way of many women in my life over the years is that they really mess with the emotional composition and in some cases psychological stability of women.

It seems, anecdotally, that it isn’t all women or maybe not even most women, but many women are adversely affected, and it is difficult to know what impact second hand hormones (from many environmental sources) may be having on the children developing in the synthetic hormone soup hat has become the environment in many industrialised economies.

Birth control pills may be an essential component of an economy that has devalued labor to the point of needing two wage slaves to support a family, but I’m not sure that the increase in wealth concentration efficiency justifies the social costs.

Water Pollution Caused by Birth Control Poses Dilemma (2012)

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