This is a YouTube video titled "The Unknown Side Effects of Birth Control | Aggie Lal x Dave Asprey" featuring a discussion between Aggie Lal and Dave Asprey recorded in January 2024. The conversation focuses on the side effects and ethical concerns surrounding hormonal birth control, including its impact on women's health and psychology.
I was never informed about the side effects of birth control, and that's the biggest thing. As long as it's an informed decision. You know, you do you. It's your body. But my decision about taking birth control was not an informed one. It was just presented as a candy or kind of like, oh, you know, you know, I got to have a period. This is great. No one made me understand that, you know, ovulations are a superpower. We actually get stronger, our bones get stronger. We. It helps us with insulin, you know, resistance during ovulation. So also, we're more attractive and we're more likely to get a, you know, raise at work. So. Yeah, like, you're losing on all of that. Yeah. I mean, these are the. There's studies for that. So. Yeah, no one ever told me, like, hey, this is the birth control. You're not gonna ovulate for years, which means that your body won't regenerate naturally every month. And so that's. That's a big one. Apart from the fact that, you know, synthetic birth control makes a lot of women depressed, suicidal, like it did for me, I.
Think it's one of the biggest crimes against women is. Is hormonal birth control.
100%.
Having access to birth control is absolutely necessary, and I think it's a human right. But selling something that increases risks of all kinds permanently and changes your psychology and changes your mate selection, which, without telling you, that, is unethical. You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey.
