Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and

medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to

take back your health naturally starting now. I'm Dr. Aviva Ram, and welcome to episode 110 of Natural MD Radio.

It's such a pleasure to have you here with me again today, and I want to talk about something

really important and something that actually has been a continued inspiration in the work that I do, which is educating

women about some of the risks of conventional medical practices.

So in this episode, we're going to talk about how to protect

yourself from the big dangerous business of women's medical devices. In

1971 the A.H. Robbins Pharmaceutical Company of Virginia began selling a

contraceptive device marketed as the Modern Superior, Second Generation, and safe choice for birth control. It was peddled by a team of

hundreds of aggressively trained pharma salesman to obstetrician gynecologists who in turn promoted it to their patients.

Amongst them are mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers, depending on how old you are.

I am old enough to distinctly remember my mother considering whether to get one and she chose to stick with the pill.

Now infamous, the intrauterine device or IUD, known as the Dalcon Shield, distributed to more than 4.5 million

women in at least 30 countries, with estimates up to 80 countries, with nearly 2 million of them implanted in women in the US was ultimately

responsible for life-threatening pelvic inflammatory disease and resultant sterility,

miscarriages, and death in at least tens of thousands of women in the

U.S. alone.

This was due to its problematic structure and manufacturing materials. Here's the thing. Not only did it become apparent

within six months of the shield being on the market that it posed serious health risks,

it was found to be remarkably ineffective.

The women wearing one, as it was fashionably described, became pregnant at a rate five times

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