# Birth Control Pills and Women's Health: Claims About Hormones and Disease

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117322300454322671
- Source account: [@BarbaraOneillAU](https://x.com/BarbaraOneillAU)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:43
- Published: 2026-11-02
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/KdlXYppj3OX8/en/birth-control-pills-and-women-s-health-claims-about-hormones-and-disease

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/KdlXYppj3OX8/en/birth-control-pills-and-women-s-health-claims-about-hormones-and-disease) 85% of women that came through the doors, whether they be nine, whether they be 90, are hormonal imbalance.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/KdlXYppj3OX8/en/birth-control-pills-and-women-s-health-claims-about-hormones-and-disease?t=6) Yeah. So coming from my roots, I wanna know why, and I found out why. One of them is the contraceptive pill.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/KdlXYppj3OX8/en/birth-control-pills-and-women-s-health-claims-about-hormones-and-disease?t=13) It disrupts the hormones, and no one ever told women that it was a hormone disruptor.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/KdlXYppj3OX8/en/birth-control-pills-and-women-s-health-claims-about-hormones-and-disease?t=18) There is a study that came out recently that said if women take the pill long-term, birth control, their chance of getting hypothyroidism goes up by nearly 300%.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/KdlXYppj3OX8/en/birth-control-pills-and-women-s-health-claims-about-hormones-and-disease?t=26) Oh, it doesn't surprise me, and breast cancer, and- Yeah ... polycystic ovarian syndrome, and fibroids, and endometriosis.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/KdlXYppj3OX8/en/birth-control-pills-and-women-s-health-claims-about-hormones-and-disease?t=34) Yeah. Endometriosis was virtually not until the pill was introduced.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/KdlXYppj3OX8/en/birth-control-pills-and-women-s-health-claims-about-hormones-and-disease?t=38) Yeah. So it's not hard to link those figures together