Women Fear Estrogen But Not Birth Control Pills

That does not make sense. Birth control pills contain synthetic estrogen and progestins that are endocrine disruptors, make "thick" blood, increase risk of breast cancer, and much more.

Today, women fear estrogen but not birth control pills. This does not make sense. Birth control pills contain synthetic estrogen and progestins that are endocrine disruptors, make "thick" blood, and much more.

The Women’s Health Initiative Re-analysis demonstrated that being on estrogen (without synthetic progestins), reduced the risk of breast cancer by 23% and reduced the risk of dying from breast cancer if you do get it by an amazing 44%.

What about the pill? The pill contains synthetic progestins. Linked to increased risk of breast cancer (let alone other issues from anxiety to bone loss to earlier menopause once going off the pill).

A study that came out this March (2023) by Kirstin Pirie of the University of Oxford, UK, and colleagues showed: There is a relative increase of 20% to 30% in breast cancer risk associated with both combined and progesterone-only contraceptives, whatever the mode of delivery.

After five years of use, the 15-year absolute excess incidence is 265 cases of breast cancer per 100,000 users.

Yet this is the form of hormone replacement that most docs use most of the time.

And they do not diss the PILL, like they do natural hormone therapies for older ladies. How odd.

In the new study, researchers analyzed data from a UK primary care database, the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), on 9,498 women under the age of 50 with invasive breast cancer diagnosed in 1996-2017, as well as data on 18,171 closely matched controls.

On average, 44% of women with breast cancer and 39% of matched controls had a hormonal contraceptive prescription, with about half the prescriptions being for progestogen-only preparations.

With five years of use of either oral combined or progestogen-only contraceptives, the associated 15-year absolute excess incidence of breast cancer was estimated at 8 cases per 100,000 hormonal contraceptive users at age 16-20 years and 265 cases per 100,000 users at age 35-39 years.

Women Worry About Estrogen.

Estrogen is not a bad guy.

It’s when estrogen is given as a non-bioidentical hormone, or when it’s mixed with “synthetic” progestins.

Non-bioidentical or synthetic have different molecular structures than the hormones our bodies were designed to process.

Bioidentical hormones have the exact same molecular structure. Even though they are synthesized in the lab, they are used by the body in the same way our body uses its own natural hormones. They can easily signal our receptors. They do not damage our receptors like some synthetic versions can. Even though I hear this stated inaccurately on some podcasts and interviews by some famous docs.

Just cause a doc is famous doesn’t mean all that comes out of their mouth is accurate.

Estrogen can be an especially less healthy player when it is taken orally.

Oral estrogen goes through the digestive tract and liver and can cause sticky blood (hyper-coagulable).

Birth control pills are taken orally.

In fact, the PILL is the number one cause of stroke in younger women, due to it making blood thicker.

The PILL is also a hidden contributor to hypertension in young and middle-aged females.

Do not let your doctor recommend birth control pills to manage peri menopause and menopause symptoms in your late 30’s, 40’s or early 50’s. This is crazy. This is the worst time of a woman’s life to take these synthetic hormones that can make blood thicker

Thicker blood is a much higher risk factor for heart attack and stroke than anything else, including “bad” cholesterol.

Knowledge is power.

Dr. B.

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Reference:

Combined and progestagen-only hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer risk: A UK nested case–control study and meta-analysis. PLOS Medicine, 2023; 20 (3): e1004188 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004188