1045: Dr. Jolene Brighten- Beyond the Pill
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin speak with Dr. Jolene Brighten, author of Beyond the Pill. Dr. Brighten is a leading expert in women's medicine and covers a number of topics in a fun and engaging way that not only affect women but the men in their lives as well.
- How many women are using birth control? (3:30)
- What symptoms are women being prescribed birth control for? (4:20)
- Have we been misled when it comes to the pill? (6:30)
- The impact of mate selection and the pill. (8:45)
- Is there a correlation to women on birth control and autoimmune disease? (16:15)
- How does birth control affect a women’s ability to gain muscle and burn body fat? (20:41)
- How there is a time and a place for birth control: What can women do to reduce side effects? (30:28)
- Diets and their impact on your body. (33:20)
- What happens when you have women who are on birth control and statins? (44:55)
- How did she get into the field of women’s health? (51:45)
- The differences between the shot and the pill. (1:00:37)
- The ‘decoder ring’ of a woman's hormonal cycle. (1:05:10)
- Are there some birth control pills that are better than others? (1:09:27)
- The 5 Fundamentals of the Brighten Protocol. (1:10:23)
- The ‘411’ on endometriosis. (1:16:25)
- How to work with the menstrual cycle to get gains. (1:20:49)
- Negative self-talk and its impact on your health. (1:32:12)
- The pros and cons of fertility awareness methods. (1:39:33)
Featured Guest/People Mentioned
- Dr. Jolene Brighten (@drjolenebrighten) Instagram
- Website
- YouTube
- Jessica Rothenberg (@thetraininghour) Instagram
- Dr Lara Briden (@larabriden) Instagram
- Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) Instagram
Related Links/Products Mentioned
- June Promotion: MAPS Strong ½ off!! **Code “STRONG50” at checkout**
- Beyond the Pill: A 30-Day Program to Balance Your Hormones, Reclaim Your Body, and Reverse the Dangerous Side Effects of the Birth Control Pill - Book by Jolene Brighten
- Women more attracted to masculine mates during ovulation
- The Stripper's Secret
- Effects of an oral contraceptive on sexual behavior of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
- Women on Pill three times more likely to get Crohn's disease... and the risk could be even higher with morning-after contraception
- Sarcopenic obesity - definition, etiology and consequences - NCBI - NIH
- Association of Hormonal Contraception With Depression
- The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence - Book by Gavin de Becker
- FDA allows marketing of first direct-to-consumer app for contraceptive use to prevent pregnancy
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh boy, this episode, I really, really enjoyed. |
| 0:18.0 | Dr. Jolene Briteen, I've been getting tagged on our stuff for a long time on social media. |
| 0:24.0 | People keep saying, we need to talk to this person, we need to have her on our show. |
| 0:28.0 | And really, what really motivated me to contact her was when my girlfriend Jessica kept talking about her, she was talking about her information, how good it was. |
| 0:38.0 | So I looked her up and I definitely was not let down. |
| 0:42.0 | First off, she's a functional medicine, naturopathic doctor. |
| 0:46.0 | She's the founder of Rubis Health, which is like a women's medical clinic that specializes in women's hormones. |
| 0:52.0 | And currently, she's recognized as a leading expert in post-birth control syndrome, and the long-term side effects associated with hormonal contraceptives. |
| 1:01.0 | And we talk a lot about that particular subject in this episode. |
| 1:06.0 | Nobody's talking about that, which is crazy. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, I'm so glad that, yeah, Jessica brought her to our attention because, man, she's just a wealth of knowledge in that direction. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, just all about birth control, how it really affects your body. |
| 1:20.0 | Does it make your body want to gain body fat, how it affects your libido when you go off of it? |
| 1:26.0 | What that's like, that's something that they've coined as post-birth control syndrome. |
| 1:30.0 | She wrote a book about this called Beyond the Pill, and it's actually quite popular right now. |
| 1:35.0 | A lot of people are reading it. I'm getting tagged quite a bit. |
| 1:38.0 | Now, you can find her on Instagram. She has a great Instagram page at Dr. Joline Brighton that spelled J-O-L-E-N-E-B-R-I-G-H-T-E-N. |
| 1:49.0 | Her website is Dr. Brighton.com. Of course, she has a YouTube Dr. Joline Brighton, and then the book I talked about is Beyond the Pill. |
| 1:57.0 | We think you're really going to enjoy this episode. Again, she dives in deep, and we learned a lot. |
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