FFP 255 | Is Questioning The Pill Anti Feminist? | Beyond The Pill | Dr. Jolene Brighten, ND
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🗓️ 26 April 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jolene Brighten is a Functional Medicine Naturopathic Medical Doctor and the founder of Rubus Health, a women’s medicine clinic that specializes in women’s hormones. She is recognized as a leading expert in Post-Birth Control Syndrome and the long-term side effects associated with hormonal contraceptives. Dr. Brighten is the author of Beyond the Pill, a 30 day plan to support women on birth control, help them transition off, and eliminate symptoms of post-birth control syndrome. She is a speaker, women’s health advocate and a medical advisor for one of the first data-driven apps to offer women personalized birth control recommendations.
In today’s episode we talk about the problem with using the pill as the “cure-all” for all things menstrual (since the pill does not cure or fix anything), and the complexities of questioning the pill as a feminist.
Today’s episode is also sponsored by The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility. The Fifth Vital Sign is available for purchase on Amazon, and you can head over to thefifthvitalsignbook.com to download the first chapter for free.
- How Dr. Brighten’s health issues as a child lead her to her career path in naturopathic medicine
- The reasons why the pill is not actually a treatment to women’s health issues
- How the goal of Dr. Brighten’s book, Beyond the Pill, was not to be anti-feminist, but to provide all the information on the effects of hormonal birth control so women can make an educated decision on whether the pill is right for them or not
- The younger you are put on the pill and they longer you stay on it, the higher probability you can develop endometriosis
- How hormonal birth control simply masks symptoms of PCOS and can actually raise your risk of it
- Why the menstrual cycle is an important indication of health
- The importance of trusting yourself and what you believe is going on in your body when talking with medical professionals
Connect with Dr. Brighten:
Resources mentioned:
- Beyond the Pill
- Dr. Jolene Brighten | Website
- The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility (Book)| Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
- Get The First chapter of The Fifth Vital Sign for FREE | thefifthvitalsignbook.com
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- FFP 203 | The Pill Problem | Ross Pelton
- FFP 205 | Is Your IUD Messing With Your Mind? | Pill Reality Series Lisa & Allie
- FFP 161 | Are IUDs Safer Than The Pill? | Hormonal IUDs vs Copper IUDs | Dr. Steve Gangemi
- FFP 140 | Transitioning From Hormonal Birth Control After Long Term Pill Use | Lisa | Fertility Friday
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by my very first book, The Fifth Vital Sign, Master your cycles and Optimize Your Fertility. |
| 0:07.3 | With over 1,000 research citations, it is the most comprehensive resource on fertility awareness and the menstrual cycle to date. |
| 0:14.1 | The Fifth Vital Sign is available for purchase on Amazon in ebook and paperback formats. |
| 0:18.7 | Audio is coming. |
| 0:20.1 | And you can grab the first chapter for free |
| 0:21.8 | over at fertility friday.com slash vital sign. That's fertility friday.com slash vital sign. |
| 0:28.2 | This is the fertility Friday podcast, episode number 255. |
| 0:49.4 | Welcome to the 255 episode of the Fertility Friday podcast. Thank you for joining me today. I'm Lisa from fertility friday.com, and this is your source for information about the fertility awareness method and all things fertility. I've got a great episode for you today. In today's episode, I'm sharing my interview with Dr. |
| 0:58.3 | Julian Brighton, author of Beyond the Pill. And in today's episode, we get into her background and what drove her to jump into this work. |
| 1:05.6 | And also, you know, why her practice ended up focusing so heavily on birth control and kind of being outspoken on the dangers and ills of birth control. Now, for those of you've been listening to the podcast |
| 1:15.5 | for a while, you'll know that I, you know, I'm also outspoken about birth control. And so we get |
| 1:20.5 | into a lot of interesting points from why medicine is, you know, always pushing it, why it doesn't |
| 1:26.7 | actually fix anything when it comes to |
| 1:28.5 | women's health, but also questioning that notion that, you know, if you question the pill, |
| 1:33.3 | it's somehow anti-feminist or somehow going against feminism. It's almost, I think we're getting |
| 1:38.5 | past that time. I feel like we're at a stage where, as women, we're starting to realize this |
| 1:42.9 | connection between our menstrual |
| 1:44.2 | cycle and our overall health and the effects of suppressing a perfectly normal and healthy |
| 1:48.4 | function of the body that is our menstrual cycles. But still there's kind of this overall, |
| 1:54.0 | you know, idea that the pill played a central role in the sexual revolution and central |
| 1:58.4 | of feminism and it represents all these things. |
| 2:01.0 | And so there's still that bit of, you know, if you're questioning the pill, like, are you |
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