by Sarah Hill | Jul 28, 2022 | Birth control, General Wellness, hormones, Relationships, The Pill
One step closer to a precision medicine approach to birth control? As you all know, I am a huge advocate of women’s reproductive health. And this means having something of a love-hate relationship with hormonal birth control. On the one hand, I love it because...
by Sarah Hill | Dec 28, 2021 | Birth control, General Wellness, hormones, Relationships, The Pill
How do I know if I am on the right birth control? This is – by far – one of the most frequently asked questions I get. And of course it is. For most of us, the birth control we’re on is a mystery. Our doctors give us a prescription for birth control. We have no idea...
by Sarah Hill | Oct 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Contraception has been around for decades, but it’s only recently that it’s become more widely talked about. The CDC reports that 14% of women between the ages of 15 to 49 are taking the pill, 10.4% are using long-term but reversible contraceptives, and 18.1% have...
by Sarah Hill | Jul 8, 2021 | Birth control, The Pill
Does the pill make sense when you are 35+? It wasn’t all that long ago that doctors used to discourage all women – regardless of their health or lifestyle – to go off of the birth control pill once they were 35 or older. However, times have changed. Not only have...
by Sarah Hill | May 6, 2021 | Birth control, hormones, The Pill, Uncategorized
One of the most common birth control misconceptions that I have encountered is the myth of the locally-acting IUD. This is the belief that the hormones in the IUD “act locally”, affecting women’s reproductive organs, but not their brains. But it doesn’t work this way....
by Sarah Hill | Mar 31, 2021 | Birth control, General Wellness, hormones, Relationships, The Pill
The Pill: Did You Know. . . ? Hormonal birth control has revolutionized society by allowing women to decide when they want to have children. This power has given women more freedom than they have ever had. But changing a woman’s sex hormones with the pill also means...
by Sarah Hill | Oct 20, 2020 | General Wellness, The Pill, Uncategorized
The Answer Might Surprise You. Low-dose birth control pills entered the market to make the pill safer for women. Which, thank goodness they did. The original birth control pills had pretty high levels of progestin and ethinyl estradiol, the latter of which increases...
by Sarah Hill | Sep 18, 2020 | General Wellness, The Pill, Uncategorized
And if so, what does this mean? The birth control pill has been life-changing for generations of women. It has allowed us to dream bigger and achieve more than even the most optimistic feminist would have ever dared imagine possible 60 years ago. Freeing women from...
by Sarah Hill | Sep 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
If your mood is all over the place and you’re having a hard time managing your stress right now, you’re not alone. A lot of us are struggling. For some of you, though, your quarantine / the-world-is-a-dumpster-fire anxiety may be being made a whole lot worse by low...
by Sarah Hill | Sep 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Seriously. But, to get to the punchline, we’re going to have to go over a few terms that aren’t particularly user-friendly. The first is allopregnanolone, which is a neurosteroid that gets released when your body is metabolizing progesterone. The second is...