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Is it safe to skip my period?

[00:00:00] Okay. Hello tribe. Today's Fast fact is gonna be about skipping your period. And is it safe when you are on the patch pill ring? IUD? The answer is yes. So quick about hormone birth control. There's a lot of data. Data I say in quotes. Um, there's a lot of chatter in integrative and alternative feeds about how bad it is to be on birth. 

Here's what I would say, like everything else I like to say nothing is ever only, everything is always, and hormonal birth control is not always good, and it is absolutely not always bad. It can be excellent for you. A, if you need birth control. B, if you have endometriosis, C, if you have pelvic pain for recurrent ovarian cysts, a history of ovarian cancer in your family. 

There can be so many good reasons to take the pill. But like anything, it's not for everyone. So as Western medical doctors, we should not. Yes, it's for everyone, and as I'm going to use the word eastern, but [00:01:00] alternative practitioners should not be saying to women, the birth control pill is dangerous and it's gonna cause micronutrient deficiency and it's gonna cause harm to you because that is merely fearmongering and it is not good for women. 

Okay? So please, please, please, if you're listening to these people, I think you should actually consider it slightly anti-feminist for them. create a situation where you feel fear about using the birth control pill, which in many ways can be helpful. Again, it's not right for everyone, and even for those people that it is right for. 

It can cause problems, but it can also solve problems. So there is not one solution. If you listen to opponents of the pill who merely tout natural remedies, they will not be able to address some of the issues that you might. Physiologically or physically. So that's just a note. This is gonna be longer than I thought. 

Let's talk about, can you skip your period safely? And the answer is yes, according to all the data we've had for decades. If you're on the pill, patching or hormone, i u [00:02:00] d. , you can skip your period. And how do we know this? Because physiologically, your period is this, you ovulate, right? Which is where the egg pops out of the ovary, out of the follicle in the ovary, which is that little bubble where the egg is housed. 

And then two weeks later, if that egg has not been fertilized by a sperm and implanted into your uterine lining, Where the uterine lining would've stayed inside if you're pregnant. So if that does not occur, so egg pops out, doesn't get fertilized, the lining does not need to stay inside with the pregnancy, the lining. 

Then two weeks after ovulation sheds itself out. That is your period. Now, if you're on the pill, patch or ring, the mechanism for birth control is stopping population. Therefore, the lining is not thickening up as much. Therefore air go. You don't need to shed it. If you have the progesterone i u d inside it is constantly thinning out the lining. 

You're still likely ovulating, but the progesterone is keeping the lining thin [00:03:00] so that the estrogen component cannot thicken. Ergo, you don't need to shed it. So the reason we get our period on a traditional pill is because the male pill makers decades ago said, you know what? I think women wanna mimic their normal cycle. 

Had they said, you know what, ladies, we're stopping ovulation. Here's the physiology. Once we stop ovulation, you don't need to shed the lining because the line lining is not thickening up. If we keep a steady dose of hormone. Therefore you don't need to shed it. We'll give you a pill that just gives you 28 straight days of the same hormone. 

Skip your period. We all would've said yes, so it is safe. This was not so fast, but that's the deal. I'm gonna go to the office now.