Short YouTube clip (a #shorts) by Robert Whitfield MD asserting that birth control pills—described as synthetic hormones—can suppress testosterone in women, and that reduced testosterone leads to low energy, decreased motivation, procrastination, and lowered confidence/self-esteem. The speaker frames this as a common external cause of hormone problems in younger women.
But the younger that women are, the more likely it is that there are external things that are causing the hormone problems. A big one that I see actually is birth control pills. Because birth control pills are synthetic man made chemicals that mimic our hormones, but they aren't actually the real hormones that our body makes. They tend to shut down testosterone. So we know that testosterone shuts down, or we know that birth control pills shut down testosterone. And testosterone is so important for energy and motivation and confidence and self esteem and get up and go and get things done. And so if testosterone levels are low, then women just kind of feel flat, kind of feel blah, just don't really feel like doing things, tend to procrastinate. They've just kind of lost their zest.
