Welcome back to the Birth Control Series! In our last few posts we’ve discussed the pill; today we’re moving on to other hormonal methods. Click here to access Birth Control Unlocked, your guide to all relevant (to me) birth control information. The implant, the patch, and the NuvaRing are all hormonal birth control methods. One … Read more
Today we continue with our series on birth control by identifying and classifying the variety of pills available to women. There are nearly 60 varieties of birth control pills. They are, as I mentioned in the first post of the series, grouped by whether they are progesterone-only or progesterone-estrogen combination pills, by which kinds and … Read more
Today we’re continuing Birth Control Week with a discussion around Drosiprenone pills. Yaz and Yazmin (as well as Gianvi, Ocella, Syeda,Zarah, Beyaz, and Safyral) are popular birth control choices for women who have PCOS or other hyper-androgen disorders. This is because the progesterone that comes in these pills is Drosiprenone. Drosiprenone acts much in the … Read more
I have been receiving a fair number of e-mails and messages about the Gender Differences in Fat Deposition post over at Mark Sisson’s site. Can I throw my hands up and say “ah ha! We did it! The giants are talking about sex differences. Now I can retire and move on to different projects”? Yeah, … Read more
Today we are going to kick off the Kick Ass Birth Control series by talking about America’s most popular method: the pill. The thing is, the pill is so complicated and comes in so many different forms, it’ll have to be broken down. This post focuses on how the pill works, and what this might … Read more
Starting this upcoming week, Paleo for Women is going to be embarking on Birth Control Week! Which will likely in fact last more than one week. Or one month. Did you know there are nearly two dozen different types of birth control?! And we shall be talking about all of them! September will be the … Read more
Episode Six of Live. Love. Eat. has now been posted. The powerful and wise mother behind the website Paleo Parents and the book Eat Like a Dinosaur: Recipes and Guidebook for Gluten Free Kids (with her husband Matt), Stacy, was my guest. In this episode, we talk about what it feels like to be discriminated … Read more
Endometriosis is a widely encountered but poorly understood condition (as is the case with most hormonal disorders, such as PCOS.) It affects, by some estimates, up to 20 percent of women of reproductive age, and by more modest estimates, around 5-10 percent. In either case this population comprises millions of women. Moreover, no one is … Read more
This post is going to be timely! I had not anticipated it working out this way, but this post is going up on the same day I am recording a podcast focusing on disordered eating over with the amazing women at the Balanced Bites podcast. If you are coming to my site from that podcast, … Read more
PCOS and hypothalamic amenorrhea are two specific, different diagnoses. Most medical professionals would never dream of diagnosing a patient with both. Nevertheless, my research, personal experience, and work with clients have demonstrated without doubt that millions of women suffer from both. PCOS and Hypothalamic Amenorrhea: Why People Think They’re So Different The majority of women … Read more