 How bad is birth control? specifically for your liver and of course there are many other negative effects of oral contraceptives mainly from the hormones the excess estrogen on the body and a quick Google search who will take you down a rabbit hole of plenty of birth control horror stories But since there's so much money to be made from you know big pharma all these pills the drugs There's very little Truth verified information about it. You're not really going to find a mainstream source Talking negatively on a large scale enough to impact their sale It's mostly anecdotal stories where these women go very in-depth about how poorly they reacted when they took these oral contraceptives outside of the headaches Weight gain depression change in sex drive specifically a decrease high blood pressure Increased risk of blood clots the liver also has to deal with negative effects from steroid hormones aka estrogen the main mechanism is through colostasis Reduction of bio flow from the liver although other forms of liver damage have occurred from birth control This is the main one some of you might have heard of colostasis of pregnancy Which is common in late stages of pregnancy where the excess hormones Seemingly put enough stress on the liver to induce this without taking birth control So the body is really sensitive to the point where any sort of even natural Hormonal fluctuation can cause this problem either way This is very bad as colostasis means no bio flow, which means the liver isn't detoxing and Extreme liver damage occurs very quickly and it's not like the liver is having trouble processing the estrogen There's actually some type of signaling with the neurotransmitters. So When you take this estrogen when you have the excess It signals the neurotransmitters to tell the liver to kind of stop the bio flow Which is is very very very bad very bad now when I was researching this I just came up with a rough assumption that birth control was bad for your liver and then the studies confirm that So we have two of the best ones here although there are like dozens and dozens of studies that do support it so we're gonna start by just kind of reading a summary and The abstract what I took from part of the study and then we'll go into the bullet points, you know, what we need to understand from that liver and the contraceptive pill or all contraceptives have been used for many years and a number of adverse effects have been recognized jaundice, debain, thrombosis, thromboembolic disease, gallbladder disease, breast Carcinoma and Dometriocarcinoma and photosensitivity just you know a bunch of modern diseases and cancers Tumor-like lesions of the liver have also been reported the biochemical facts of the oral contraceptive on the liver With particular reference to jaundice are discussed in detail Bro, it's like January 25th, and someone's using a leaf blower Ridiculous anyway Estrogens and progesterones were found not to be highly cytolitic to liver cells That means that the estrogens did not directly kill liver cells. I mean Yeah, you might want to look into that but that's a little crazy While estrogen being more colostatic than progesterone when given alone Neither is capable of producing high transomynosemia. We're assuming that's some type of liver dysfunction I didn't look it up when progestogens are given simultaneously the colostatic effect of estrogens is enhanced and and That's really significant because all birth control are combined estrogens So it doesn't make sense that in the study they went to isolate them when the reality of the market available drugs Is that they're all combined estrogens? The lowest possible dose of estrogens should be used to achieve contraceptive effect During the first two months of oral contraceptive use the pill user should have her blood tested for bilorubin weekly Darkening of urine necessitates further examination. So this study is excellent in a sense that It goes over, you know pass reported damage and side effects related to the liver from birth control It explains exactly what it's doing and then it even offers a solution about what you should be doing So this really tells you every single thing you need to be warned about for birth control in many cases so this next study looked at two specific cases of Woman actually getting liver problems after taking birth control hepatobiliary complications of oral contraceptives aka OCs a 15 year old black teenager came into a clinic Requesting oral contraceptives the physical examination indicated that she was in good health and the physician prescribed an OC Which had the typical ratios of most modern drugs? So this wasn't something unusual 21 months later she returned complaining of yellow eyes for three weeks. The oral mucosa was also Jaundiced she had considerably high levels of bilorubin and alkaline phosphate Those are the liver numbers and when the liver numbers get elevated like that. It's already really bad, you know liver damage takes a long time and Once the liver numbers are escalated you're already in a very very deep pit of liver damage That's going to take a while to recover from she did not have jaundice at this time 10 months later she complained of malaise and muscle pain her alkaline Phosphatase level was high but her bilorubin level was normal She had mild hepato splenomegaly Which is just swelling of the liver and spleen without fecal defects after reviewing her medical records The physician diagnosed intrapathic cholestasis and discontinued her OC prescription Liver function tests were normal within three months 14 months later she returned complaining of malaise and reported taking OC's obtained at another clinic three months earlier So this young lady Went to a clinic. They said she was healthy. She got birth control. It destroyed her liver Once she stopped the birth control She quickly got better and then decided to get the birth control from another doctor and her liver got worse again, so She wasn't thinking too much Outside of getting railed by tall ugly dudes, but go figure. That's what happens when there's too much estrogen in the water You know brain doesn't work right Excuse my misogyny, but it's so much true The same physician also examined a 32 year old black woman who had intermittent epigastric and right upper quadrant Abdominal pain for two weeks eating worse in the pain, which lasted for up to 15 minutes She had used an OC for 12 years Ultrasound revealed a 4.2 centimeter Hypoechoic mass in the upper lobe of the liver The physician discontinued the OC's the tumor regressed over 12 months, so Long-term birth control usage Leaded to enough stress on the liver that this woman developed a tumor from it and then Once the birth control was stopped It took the stress off the liver and actually went away after 12 months, so You know, there's something to be said, you know It's not necessarily directly damaging the liver But the estrogen is signaling to the neurotransmitters to tell the liver to stop releasing bile for some reason and Then that just causes all the toxins in your food in your environment to build up because your liver is not functioning So depending on how healthy the person is will kind of deem how much they can tolerate This you know adverse metabolic reaction from excess estrogen in birth control So since we have an understanding of the liver aspect of that We'll go into the mainstream birth controls which are all similar because they have Comparable amounts of combined estrogens. There's a lot of different ones Merced, Nordette, Natasia, low overall, Orthonovoam and some of them are marketed as low estrogen But then they just increase the amount of the other hormones like progestins, which Same problem. They're not technically estrogen, so they can market the product as that But it's just the big pharma being deceitful and still destroying your health with these drugs I feel like these are zoomer names Like you can name a kid in Natasia, right? Nordette Merced maybe. I don't know about the other ones. I don't know about a kid named Orthonovoam, but The other ones sound like kids names anyway All of those bad So I don't really think oral contraceptives birth control should be taken under any circumstance You know and if not just for the liver damage on the other side of facts It makes you age really quickly because the number one thing that Impacts youthful appearance is liver damage. If you want to look as horrible as possible You would want to stop your detox pathways and then all of those toxins in the diet in the environment Accumulate in your cells and tissues and your body can't remove them. I think that's why a lot of women are aging faster Than men in some cases. I think it's really the birth control really really big factor So what can I use? What you know, can I use this contraception? I? Don't have a good answer really. I know they have IUDs One is a plastic IUD that releases progestin, which is just as bad very very bad for you can cause liver damage. So The copper IUD there's also a lot of horror stories related to that. I'm curious if Zinc can be supplemented or if a proper diet would offset the negatives of the copper toxicity from it Out of all the things I looked into I mean, you know, obviously, you know wearing a condom That that might be more reasonable in some cases, but you know if you want a raw dog it Copper IUD I would look into that and see how you feel. I mean You know, it's an unnatural thing so we're trying to just alleviate all the negative downsides as much as possible and you know, the IUDs to me seem way less Harmful or dangerous than all these oral contraceptives and specifically the copper one that's not releasing hormones But and I wasn't really sure if I wanted to do a video about this because when men talk about Female health that kind of gets brushed to the wayside That's a double standard though because guys will listen to girls talk about men's health I mean, maybe if they're pretty and then they're just rude to them, but You know, I figured if we stuck to the Topic of the liver damage and that type of stuff it would be a little more reasonable But hey guys, don't be surprised if you see a girl with shoulders wider than mine Talking about this information within a week or two and stealing all the money. So that's what usually happens to my YouTube channel So if you guys do want to support me, you can go to frank-tofano.com see all of my creative ideas and my businesses Maybe we'll do I guess a general birth control video and focus more on that and go over the anecdotal stories and the negatives and the downsides But I think this is a good enough reason because you can go look into those stories yourself Now you understand the liver damage aspect of it. You kind of know what to look into so as always Thank you guys for joining. Please drop a like on the video. Leave a comment down below Subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week and be sure to check that notification bell So they don't notify you of my videos. Therefore as I said guys frank-tofano.com I'll see you soon