Welcome to Wellness en masse. I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire, and we are going to do with something a little

different this week. I had something planned for the podcast episode to be released this week.

However, yesterday I found myself going down this never-ending rabbit hole. Have you ever done that

where you start searching one thing? And then you're

like, oh, well, that's interesting. I'm going to click on this length and then this link. And then

several hours later, I have to change our entire week's topic because I'm still down the rabbit

hole and I'm just going to bring you guys down with me. So yesterday, if you saw, I do a weekly

segment on Fox and Friends weekend

wellness, and we always talk about some sort of news of the week or some wellness

topic, usually some social media trend that I think is totally bogus. This week, though,

I was asked to kind of dive into some of the less common or less known side effects of contraception use.

All right, it seems pretty straightforward.

I've been studying contraceptives for, I don't know, gays, and just as a woman, I knew about

them, obviously.

But as I was looking for the more, or I should say, less commonly known ones, that's when I found myself kind of going

down this rabbit hole. As a woman, anywhere from 60 to 75 percent of women of childbearing age

are all on contraceptives here in the United States, whether it's oral contraceptives, implantable

devices like rings, IUDs, surgical contraception,

where you have your tubes tied during some sort of surgery.

There are a lot of different contraceptives these days.

But the most common, the overwhelmingly most common are the hormonal oral contraceptives or the pill as most

people know it as. So I kind of focus there a bit. And one of the things that really stood

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