#378: Damaging Effects Of Hormonal Birth Control w. Shawn Mynar | Mimi Moments
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Mimi Bouchard
4.4 • 953 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this week's captivating Mimi Moment, Shawn Mynar, functional nutritionist and business coach, shares valuable insights that she uncovered as she immersed herself in holistic health, revealing the profound impact external factors had on her body, which were previously dismissed as normal. Shawn passionately emphasizes the importance of intuitively connecting with our bodies and menstrual cycles, a connection inhibited by synthetic hormones. She reveals that hormonal birth control merely suppresses hormone-related issues, leading to gut flora imbalances. Discover compelling reasons to consider breaking free from birth control, including the depletion of vital nutrients like zinc, magnesium, and B vitamins. Shawn explains the detrimental impacts of synthetic hormones, from mood swings to impaired liver detoxification and adrenal function. Her empowering message encourages grace and self-care, healing and nurturing the body with nutrient-rich foods. Through unveiling insights and equipping women to make informed choices, Shawn empowers listeners to reclaim their health and well-being.
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To hear the full episode: Shawn Mynar's Episode #61 + Episode #62
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mimi. Welcome to our new weekly Mimi moments, a new series focusing on short impactful |
| 0:06.6 | excerpts from some of the most powerful conversations that I've had on the show. |
| 0:10.4 | I hope it elevates your day, and if you want to hear the whole episode there's a link in the |
| 0:14.5 | show notes. Thanks for listening. Enjoy. |
| 0:19.8 | I was on a birth control the birth control pill for 15 years, |
| 0:25.3 | pretty much straight, yeah, which is a long time. |
| 0:28.4 | But so I did that and then got off of that |
| 0:31.1 | and as I was starting to learn more about holistic health and just |
| 0:36.6 | natural ways to improve your health versus traditional medicine routes that |
| 0:42.2 | would be obviously the birth control pill. |
| 0:44.4 | That's when I started realizing, hey I should probably check into this a little bit more |
| 0:49.0 | and really start paying attention to my body and some of the impacts that could be having. |
| 0:53.6 | Some of the things that honestly I just thought was part of me and part of my hormones and |
| 0:59.3 | just had to deal with. |
| 1:00.5 | Like for instance, something that was really huge for me was my skin. I would have a breakout every single month. |
| 1:08.0 | At the same time of the month, like clockwork and still having to deal with acne breakouts was kind of my biggest clue that something |
| 1:16.7 | wasn't right when I actually realized I didn't have to deal with that and that wasn't just |
| 1:22.0 | because it's me, that was something going on |
| 1:24.0 | with my hormones and with what birth control was doing to my hormones and then I |
| 1:28.5 | think it was probably less than a year after that I got the copper IUD which is the non-hormonal copper-based IUD |
| 1:37.2 | implant and the same kind of thing happened I just noticed that my body didn't respond well to that either and as I of able to really tap in and understand that those were just side effects of birth control and not me. |
| 1:56.7 | So then I just when I just stopped it all. |
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