Birth Control: What's it Doing While You're Not Looking?
If you’re on birth control, it’s likely solving a problem you have. It’s giving you confidence in pregnancy prevention, or it’s clearing up your acne, OR it’s regulating your cycle. Sometimes you just like to know when your period is coming, because there are days where you want to rock white pants without a panic attack.
But, birth control pills are likely creating a different problem. Oral contraceptives rob your body of B vitamins. So much so, that it’s hard to get enough “B” from food to replace the stolen goods. No thanks! We NEED those B’s!
In a perfect world, oral contraceptive would have no side effects. However, today (and everyday), we’re being realistic, not idealistic.
What we know:
Taking oral contraceptive for any amount of time can rob your body of B vitamins.
- B Vitamins are essential for your body to detoxify harmful chemicals, like the ones in junk food, most skin care products, household cleaners, and the unfiltered air we breath.
- Birth control may cause or cover up a real and severe hormone imbalance because B vitamins are essential for hormone regulation
B vitamins are essential for minor things like:
- vision
- feeling energized
- good skin
- digestion
- making blood
- mental clarity
- delicate hormone balance
- and more!
Oh, those aren’t minor?
(They’re not, we’re just making sure you’re paying attention.)
I don’t have weird symptoms, why do I need to worry about this now?
Low B vitamins can lead to scary things in the future:
- Birth defects or miscarriages
- Chronic inflammation (and eventually autoimmune disorders)
- Extreme fatigue
- Cancer
- Heart Attack
- Stroke
I’m on the pill (or took it for a while), how do I rebuild my system?
- Eat foods rich in B Vitamins:
Dig in to broccoli, asparagus, organic grass-fed red meat, liver, eggs, fish, chicken, spinach, avocados, tomatoes, and pumpkin seeds.
- Take a Vitamin B Complex:
“Complex” in this scenario means more than one type of B vitamin. There are 8 types of B vitamins, and Well Labs Methyl B’s has them all. Not only do we have them, but they’re high quality and easily absorbed.
Every woman has the right to birth control, AND the right to know how it’s affecting them. Take charge, boss lady. Prevent illness now; your future self says, “thank you.”
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Wear your white pants. Plan your baby-making. Get your B’s back like a boss.
p.s. -- Take your Methyl B’s with food (we prefer breakfast), because these things are potent, and we don’t want your belly to hurt.
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Hannah Anderson
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