What’s Birth Control Doing to Your Cells? | Dr. Mansoor Mohammed

Name: What’s Birth Control Doing to Your Cells? | Dr. Mansoor Mohammed
Uploaded: 2024-09-25T12:15:02+00:00
Duration: 54 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: Dr. Mansoor Mohammed questions what happens when women take continuous hormonal birth control for years, suppressing the monthly hormonal cycle their…

25 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Mansoor Mohammed questions what happens when women take continuous hormonal birth control for years, suppressing the monthly hormonal cycle their cells evolved to expect. Many women in their 20s and 30s haven't had a natural period in five to seven years. He worries about metabolic disruption and what effects will show up decades later.

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I see many patients now, and I'm aghast by how many 20-something-year-old females, 30-something-year-old females that have not had even a breakthrough period for 5, 7 years because they're taking birth control nonstop. And their cellular machinery, their metabolic cascades that were designed to tolerate a cascade for 6 days of the month is keeping that cascade up for 365 days, year in, year out. It really does not take an astute biologist or clinician to appreciate what are we doing to the metabolic machinery of the body and what's going to happen. This body, this one body that we have, what's going to happen to this young woman when she's in her 40s or in her 50s or in her 60s? What have we done to her cellular machinery?