According to the CDC about 15 to 16 percent of fertile women in the US are taking

hormonal birth control pills. It's a lot of people it's like one in six people

let's say are one in six fertile women so the ages of 15 to 44 are on

hormonal contraceptive. What is the effect of that? Well, there's research to suggest that it affects the type of man

that a heterosexual woman is attracted to. There's research that

correlates hormonal birth control with increased incidents of mental health

disorders, weight gain, sexual

dysfunction, lack of libido, and future fertility problems. Now those are of course

the small print on the pills or the shot or the patch or whatever it is, but anecdotally if you go around asking people,

those are pretty commonly, one of those or multiple of those side effects are pretty common.

At the same time, what are the real solutions?

How do you address this?

Like everything with your health,

whether we're talking about food or nutrition or exercise,

it's really personal.

And there's different things at different times

and there's different things for different groups of people

and you have to make a decision and

informed decision.

A big problem with reproductive health is people are often making decisions in a vacuum.

They're going to their OBGYN and taking whatever is given. And they're also based on what everybody else is doing.

So if 15-16 percent, if most fertile sexually active women are taking a contraceptive hormone of some form,

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