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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Birth Control Can Give You Copper Overload

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Here’s what you need to know about birth control and copper overload.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weights.

0:25.6

Let's talk about birth control and copper overload. When you're on birth control pills or an IUD, which usually comes with copper, and that can create a lot of problems.

0:35.6

Because when you increase copper, you severely decrease zinc and you create an imbalance. There create a lot of problems because when you increase copper, you severely decrease zinc

0:39.0

and you create an imbalance.

0:41.0

There's a lot of symptoms that can occur from too much copper.

0:46.6

But here's the thing.

0:48.8

Estrogen increases copper in your body.

0:52.4

And one of the reasons why they use copper as an IUD is it immobilizes sperm.

0:58.2

It's antimicrobial. And it creates a lot of other things, too, that can inhibit fertility.

1:06.0

One is it increases estrogen. So copper increases estrogen, and estrogen increases copper. They feed each other.

1:14.0

But at the same time, we're lowering zinc, lowering vitamin C, lowering iron. It impacts the vaginal

1:20.8

microbiome, the bacteria that regulates estrogen. So we get this huge alteration in estrogen. Not to mention that high levels of copper

1:30.5

stop the liver from removing excess amounts of estrogen. So we have this increase in copper,

1:40.0

increase in estrogen. And the symptoms that occur with copper toxicity, hyperactivity,

1:47.6

ADHD, autism, skin sensitivity, so the sensation of even clothing on your skin gets very,

1:55.5

very irritating to you can inhibit your ability to learn because of how copper affects certain parts of the brain.

2:03.7

The little white spots on the nails, you're becoming more emotional, especially angry or irritable,

2:10.6

potential problem with ringing of the ears and sensitivity to shellfish. Well, what can you do?

2:17.2

Well, there's several things you can do. One is to find a

2:20.0

safer birth control method. Number two, you can get a product called dim, which is a concentrated

2:27.2

cruciferous compound. Cruciferous is very anti-estrogen, so it will help to regulate

2:33.6

estrogen in a very natural way without any

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