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Posted on 05/27/2005 6:36:33 AM PDT by St. Johann Tetzel
Birth Control Pill May Permanently Reduce Sex Drive Study Finds
BOSTON, May 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - It seems that the 40 year-long affair of doctors with the Pill is starting to sour. Doctors are starting to examine the long term effects of meddling with the delicate and complex biochemical systems that accompany the human reproductive system. The water systems around most urban centres are becoming polluted with artificial hormones from birth control pills and are being investigated as a cause of prostate cancer. Women are being warned that the use of the pill may lead to blood clots and other life-threatening side effects.
Now, a new medical study is showing that the hormonal birth control pill is likely to cause permanent decrease in sex-drive if used long enough.
A team of researchers are Boston University have found that the use of hormonal contraceptives increases the level of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) - a protein produced in the liver that lowers testosterone levels, thereby reducing sexual drive and that this increase was still found in women who had stopped taking the pill for a year.
The team's research leader, Dr Claudia Panzer, an endocrinologist at the Boston University Medical Center, said the study indicated that the loss of libido might not be reversible. "It is important that when doctors advise women to take oral contraception that potential side-effects, including loss of sexual appetite and arousal, are pointed out. If, as our study suggests, the Pill can cause a long-term or permanent loss of libido, that is something women need to be made aware of."
The researchers studied the use of the pill on 124 women at a sexual dysfunction clinic. Those who continued taking the Pill had four times the normal SHBG levels of women who had never taken it. Those women in the study who stopped taking the pill at the beginning of the study still had twice the normal level of SHBG after a year.
Read coverage from the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/26/npill26.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/26/ixhome.html
Related LifeSiteNews.com coverage: Birth Control Pill May Cause Prostate Cancer and Bladder Disease in Mothers' Children http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/may/05050411.html
MANILA, May 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Manila's mayor, Lito Atienza, has ordered his police chief to stop the trade in abortion drugs in Manila. In October 2000, Atienza vowed that he would arrest anyone trying to bring the killer abortion drug RU-486 into the city and now he has given Western Police District director Chief Superintendent Pedro Bulaong a mandate to stop the trade that is being carried on illicitly by UN-supported NGO's.
RU-486 has been the cause of death not only of uncounted children, but in many cases of their mothers as well. This move has infuriated foreign-funded population control activists.
Atienza, also chairs Pro-Life Philippines and has stood up to the international population control lobby on many issues. He has also been excoriated in the foreign press for pointing out that a condom is inadequate in the campaign against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. "A condom is not a guarantee against AIDS because the virus is so minuscule, smaller than a sperm cell perhaps, that it can pass through it," he said.
In February 2000, Atienza declared the city's "commitment and support to the responsible parenthood movement, natural family planning . . . while discouraging the use of artificial methods of contraception like condoms, pills, intrauterine devices, surgical sterilization and others."
Abortion groups, funded heavily through the United Nations population control body the UNFPA, unused as they are to their agenda being effectively opposed, have complained that they feel they are being persecuted. Carolina Ruiz-Austria, of the Reproductive Health Advocacy Network (RHAN) said, "They were told that what they are doing is forbidden in Manila. It's unnerving." Such groups also complain that there is a growing opposition to their efforts in the Philippines and that the country is becoming more pro-life in public opinion.
The Philippine Legislators' Committee on Population and Development received reports that some towns in Batangas, Camarines Sur, Palawan and Bukidnon are following Atienza's lead.
Wedding Rings reduce sex drive.
Oestrogen-like chemicals commonly found in oral contraceptives and plastic packaging could deform the prostate gland of human embryos, suggests a new study in mice. Deformities to the prostate gland have been linked to prostate cancer and bladder disease in later life.
The finding is significant because up to 3% of women taking oral contraceptive drugs become pregnant without their knowledge, and continue exposing the fetus to the contraceptive drug many months into pregnancy.
This is because the risk of pregnancy becomes higher when the drug is not taken diligently, but many women do not realise this, says study author Frederick vom Saal of the University of Missouri in Columbia, US.
Among the 60 million women using oral contraceptives in the US and Europe, the average number of missed pills is three per month, he says. This results in up to two million women taking the pill accidentally becoming pregnant each year.
In order to test the effect of a typical oral contraceptive on the development of the embryo, vom Saal and his team gave pregnant mice the contraceptive ethinylestradiol. The dosage was scaled down to the mouse-equivalent of one-fifth of the normal human dose and was administered for five days.
They also exposed a group of mice to low levels of a similar oestrogenic chemical, bisphenol A - a common environmental pollutant found in polycarbonate plastics and the lining of food cans.
The researchers found a subsequent increase in the number and size of prostate ducts and a narrowing of the bladder neck in male mouse fetuses exposed to these chemicals.
The effect seen was similar to the deformities caused by diethylstilbestrol - a known teratogenic and cancer-causing chemical also tested by the team. That drug caused cancer and other reproductive organ abnormalities in children born in the 1950s and 60s after it was administered to their mothers while pregnant.
The researchers argue that the effect seen in mice - which could lead to difficulties with urination as well as prostate cancer - is a direct analogue of how these drugs affect the human reproductive system.
“These chemicals [mimic] extremely potent synthetic sex hormones, strong enough to completely control an adult women’s reproductive system,” vom Saal told New Scientist: “The developing fetus is extremely sensitive to chemical disturbance…so exposing a male baby to them is a very bad idea.”
“These interesting results add to the evidence that these chemicals can damage human embryos,” comments endocrinologist Stephen Safe at Texas A&M University in College Station, US. Though more studies are needed to confirm the mouse strain tested is a good analogue of the human reproductive system, the findings justify a careful re-evaluation of the safety of these chemicals, he says.
On 28 April a legislative committee in California, US, passed a bill to ban bisphenol A from all products used by children aged three and under. Currently over two million tonnes of polycarbonate plastics containing the chemical are produced worldwide each year.
Journal reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0502544102)
Ah, but now we have ARTIFICAL arousal - VIAGRA!
I believe there is something ARTIFICIAL for women too!
What a phony world we live in.
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BC is a hormonal assault on a woman's body. I believed that before I took a catholic approach to BC. Based on holistic healing and solutions for a woman's health, it's about as bad any anything for a woman to take. Some things I've noticed with women on the pill in the store I work in: weight gain close to an average of 30 lbs., inability to conceive after stopping the pill, blood clots, one lady had a stroke. Ladies take at your own risk. Also, if a woman takes BC for acne, she's really putting herself at risk!
""The water systems around most urban centers are becoming polluted with artificial hormones from birth control pills and are being investigated as a cause of prostate cancer.""
I think I would be more worried about the filtration system in my cities water source than if it is causing prostrate cancer. By adding this line this article tells me they are reaching for any straw to push an agenda, the dilution of those pills into the wastewater system is NOT causing prostrate cancer.
What's it do to women's pheromones, one wonders.
You got that right.
Know what lawyers use for birth control????
Their personalities! Badda-boom!
I have found that uglyness reduces sex drive and I did not even have a study done.
[Researchers] also exposed a group of mice to low levels of a similar oestrogenic chemical, bisphenol A - a common environmental pollutant found in polycarbonate plastics and the lining of food cans.
Increase in prostate cancer due to 'women runoff' into drinking water?...
The ultimate feminazi revenge
Oh really?!?
Janet Raloff
Doctors recommend drinking plenty of water to replenish lost fluids and wash away wastes. Just where do the excreted wastes go? At least a few, including hormones and heart drugs, end up in streams—and eventually someone else's drinking water, a new study finds.
Though the amounts detected in water from a Louisiana tap were small—just a few parts per trillion (ppt)—they can be biologically active, another study finds. At these concentrations, one of the hormones measured and another found in birth control pills alter the apparent gender of fish and, possibly, their fertility.
In a suite of yet more studies, collaborating state, federal, and university scientists report finding male carp and walleyes in Minnesota that were producing "sky-high" quantities of vitellogenin, an egg-yolk protein normally made only by females. Such feminization might explain the suspected inability of some adult male fish to make sperm. The researchers had caught the walleyes in the effluent of a sewage-treatment plant—a type of facility that others have shown can release estrogenic pollutants (SN: 3/21/98, p. 187: http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc98/3_21_98/bob1.htm).
Researchers reported all these findings last week in Minneapolis at a meeting sponsored by the National Ground Water Association.
Glen R. Boyd, a civil engineer at Tulane University in New Orleans, described a preliminary survey this spring of the anticholesterol drug clofibric acid, the pain reliever naproxen, and the hormone estrone in local waters. His team's sampling turned up the drugs at three sites along the Mississippi River, at four sites around Lake Pontchartrain, and in Tulane's tap water.
Though the drugs weren't always detectable, assays revealed a minimum of 10 ppt of each at least once at every site. Estrone in tap water, for instance, averaged 35 ppt, with a high of 80 ppt.
Environment Canada detected similar pollutants in its 1998 nationwide survey of sewage-treatment effluent. At some sites, estrone reached 400 ppt and the hormone ethinylestradiol from birth control pills reached 14 ppt, notes Chris D. Metcalfe of Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. He's now exposed eggs of a laboratory fish, the Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes), for 100 days to concentrations typical of the survey.
At exposures of 0.1 ppt ethinylestradiol or 10 ppt estrone, some males became intersex, exhibiting both male and female reproductive tissues. Exposures to 1,000 ppt of either of these estrogens transformed all males into females. The findings are slated to appear in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
Though not a North American fish, the medaka models the reproductive responses of native fish well, Metcalfe says. In fact, his fieldwork around the Great Lakes has uncovered signs of intersex white perch. That's worrisome, he observes, since intersex fish "usually aren't interested in sex—in spawning."
Moreover, in early March, Ira Adelman of the University of Minnesota in St. Paul caught male walleyes in local waters. He was able to extract sperm from all of them except those swimming in a channel that received effluent from a sewage-treatment plant.
The channel's unusual warmth may have triggered these males to release their sperm early, he said. However, he noted, it's also possible that those estrogenic pollutants that fostered males to produce egg-yolk protein also "arrested the fish in an early state of sexual development." His team is now looking for testicular abnormalities in the fish.
Local carp, which normally spawn later, made sperm. But Adelman reported preliminary data indicating that sperm from males in the sewage-treatment-plant channel show somewhat slowed motility.
None of the new data are strong enough to indict pharmaceutical pollution for harming wildlife, much less people, notes Leroy C. Folmar of the Environmental Protection Agency in Gulf Breeze, Fla. However, he adds, the studies by Metcalfe and Adelman hint that estrogens in water may be capable of inducing "functional sterility" in exposed fish.
Christian G. Daughton of the EPA's National Exposure Research Laboratory in Las Vegas says that Boyd's tap water data will be "disturbing" if they're confirmed. "If [drugs] are in drinking water now," he warns, "you can be guaranteed they've been there as long as the drugs have been in use."
Janet Raloff
Some scientists now worry that discarded contraceptive patches may leak synthetic estrogen into the environment, potentially harming wildlife.
Further Readings:
Kolpin, D.W., et al. 2002. Pharmaceuticals, hormones, and other organic wastewater contaminants in U.S. streams, 1999–2000: A national reconnaissance. Environmental Science and Technology 36(March 15):1202-1211.
Kuch, H.M., and K. Ballschmiter. 2001. Determination of endocrine-disrupting phenolic compounds and estrogens in surface and drinking water by HRGC—(NCI)—MS in the picogram per liter range. Environmental Science and Technology 35(Aug. 1):3201-3206.
Larsson, D.G.J. 2002. Aspects on the categorical exclusion from Environmental Risk Assessment for Ortho-EVRA in the U.S., and the U.S. legislation about actions to take when a pharmaceutical product can be considered likely to have an environmental impact. Letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Oct. 13.
Larsson, D.G.J., et al. 1999. Ethinyloestradiol—an undesired fish contraceptive? Aquatic Toxicology 45(April):91-97.
Parkkonen, J., D.G.J. Larsson, et al. 1999. Contraceptive pill residues in sewage effluent are estrogenic to fish. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Reproductive Physiology of Fish. July. Bergen, Norway.
Raloff, J. 2000. Execreted drugs: Something looks fishy. Science News 157(June 17):388. Available at http://www.sciencenews.org/20000617/fob1.asp.
______. 1994. The gender benders. Science News 145(Jan. 8):24. Available at http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_edpik/ls_7.htm.
Once again, I am in agreement with you! LOL!! We need to meet!
I found BCP to be AWFUL...totally eradicating the normal hormonal ebb and flow of emotions. Sure, I didn't have any PMS...I didn't have ANYTHING.
Plus, I felt uncomfortable with what that hormone might actually be doing, not only to me, but to a potential "someone else".
Hubby and I switched to NFP many years ago and that was what we've used for the majority of our married life. We've enjoyed a very natural and healthy relationship. We reversed the NFP "procedure" twice, thus "Two Jedis"! :-)
Why anyone would willingly subject her body to hormones is beyond me. Why any man who cares for her would encourage her to is also beyond me.
They made me the psycho hose beast from hell, like severe PMS all month long. The pills didn't trash my sex drive, but I was too dang scary to get anywhere near.
LQ
It's strange but through contacts with two customers I found out a quack abortionist was butchered women with abortions and bad pills. I guess some women don't realize what BC does to the body. When I was in PP waiting for my gyno, this girl was getting the depo shot. NEVER GET THE DEPO SHOT. I wanted to turn to her and tell her are you nuts?! You know a lot of times the men DON'T care. Men love it when women use BC because it means free, unattached, non-baby producing sex for them. Go figure. My ex had to be the only man I ever met that hated birth control, oh well :o)
Hubby and I switched to NFP many years ago and that was what we've used for the majority of our married life. We've enjoyed a very natural and healthy relationship. We reversed the NFP "procedure" twice, thus "Two Jedis"! :-)
What???? There exists another female aside from myself who is not on the pill?? LOL We should meet:) I can't say enough about how wonderful NFP has been for my health and marriage.
I think it's wonderful to read women who are of a 'quiver full' mentality. Good for young women like myself to read.
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