Trading Fertility for Fantasy Part 2: The Prosperous Power of Progesterone & the Double-Edged Sword of Estrogen
In this second part of our look back at the history of women’s health, we explore the history of estrogen and hormonal birth control as well as the crucial role progesterone plays in our physical and emotional health.
- How progesterone plays a very important role in channeling energy and focus
- How estrogen and progesterone work in harmony
- How hard it is to create progesterone vs. estrogen
- The danger of having estrogen without progesterone
- The isolation and marketing of synthetic estrogen
- The history hormonal birth control
- How hormonal birth control really works and the impact it has on the female body
- How to protect our progesterone
In this episode I mentioned:
- The Business of Birth Control
- Brain to Uterus Connection
- Uterus and Memory
- History of diethylstilbestrol (DES) in cattle
- History of Estrogen
- History of DES in women
- Effects of DES in women
- Estradiol valerate used to induce PCOS in rats
- Productions & Actions of Estrogens
- Estrogen & Lack of Progesterone Makes Us Fat:
- PubMed
- Daily Mail
- Chamberlain-Kahn Act/The American Plan:
- History.com
- Chamberlain-Kahn Act
- Women in Psychiatry
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Information
- Show
- FrequencyUpdated Weekly
- PublishedAugust 24, 2023 at 9:00 AM UTC
- Length59 min
- Season1
- Episode6
- RatingClean