Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how synthetic hormones in birth control pills alter your gut microbiome and reduce stomach acid, potentially causing bacterial and yeast overgrowth. She connects these changes to fatigue, eczema, acne, and headaches, and says they may trigger autoimmune conditions like Hashimoto's and lupus.
Birth control pills and those synthetic hormones, chronically, over time, cause a change in your microbiome in your gut, so it changes what bacteria live in there. It causes you to produce less stomach acid, which causes bad bacteria to multiply and overgrow and end up in your colon where it doesn't belong. You can actually end up with sibo, or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. You can end up with yeast in your gut. And all of these issues that cause fatigue and eczema and acne and headaches, and that can turn on autoimmune conditions like Hashimoto's and celiac and Raynaud's and Lupus and rheumatoid and all these things you don't want.
