Contraception Explained with Dr Sophia Yen

Sex, Body, and Soul

Kate Roberts

Education, Relationships, Sexuality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dr Sophia Yen is the CEO and co-founder of https://www.pandiahealth.com/?Invite=BodyAgency first and only birth control delivery company founded and led by women and led by a doctor‬—Following her passions for making women's lives better, Sophia pivoted from a career as a physician to be an entrepreneur and advocate, launching several corporate and non-profit initiatives focused on women’s reproductive health and empowerment. She is also a clinical associate professor in adolescent medicine. We talk about all aspects of contraception, how to get it and what are the myths, such as weight gain. We smash the taboos and hear from a very relatable and ridiculously cool physician on all the dos and don'ts of contraception.

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0:00.0	This should be presented as, you know, this is the way animals function.
0:04.7	This is the way humans function.
0:06.3	If you put this and this together, there will be a pregnancy, and we want to prevent unplanned pregnancy.
0:12.2	Welcome to Sex, Body and Soul.
0:14.8	I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the Body Agency, and on this show, we talk about the marvel that is our bodies, what they can do
0:22.9	and what they need to thrive. Ladies out there, our time is now. Let's get to it.
0:29.8	Our next guest is Dr. Sophia Yen. She graduated MIT with a degree in biology, and at UC Berkeley, she obtained her MPH in child and maternal health.
0:42.3	She's also the co-founder and CEO of Pandia Health, a birth control delivery service that provides a doctor's consult.
0:50.3	You can basically get your contraception delivered to your home.
0:53.3	We'll really be getting into dissecting contraception, how you get it, addressing all those
0:59.4	myths out there, and also looking at all the methods that are available and right for you.
1:06.6	Dr. Sophia Yan, welcome to the show.
1:10.5	Yes, thank you for having me.
1:12.7	Well, I believe that we have something very much in common
1:17.8	that you and I have found each other,
1:21.3	and we believe that every woman around the world
1:25.2	who's in her fertile years needs to have access to contraception.
1:31.1	Of course. Why wouldn't you want that for everybody?
1:35.5	How did you get there?
1:37.7	I think, you know, as a sexually active 15-year-old pre-med, I did not want to get pregnant. And pregnant could not figure in the next
1:47.0	four years of college, four years of medical school, three years of residency. And it just, you know,
1:53.1	upset me that I wouldn't be given the tools to prevent unplanned pregnancy. And so it's so
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