WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.279 At some point in her life, she may decide that she wants to take 2 00:00:02.319 --> 00:00:05.639 birth control and she may or may not love it, and that is her 3 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:09.119 decision to make. This is toxic, that's toxic, this is unnatural. 4 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:12.439 That's I'm like, And that is literally like all she talks about. And 5 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:15.519 it's like, but she put so much shit in your face. There are 6 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:25.920 other factors at play here. So today we are going to talk about so 7 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:31.800 many things that are gonna get people's feathers ruffled. They're gonna ruffles. We're 8 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:35.479 gonna ruffle some feathers. Yeah, we are in the industry, if you 9 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:39.640 will, because we're gonna say some things. 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Yeah, because I think 28 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.879 our perspective is probably a little different than what people are hearing out there, 29 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:01.000 because we're old. We're old, and in fact, I think a really 30 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:06.079 great way to kick off this conversation would be to play this video the producer 31 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:10.039 Villain sent us yesterday of a gen xer who it was like she was staring 32 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:17.240 into my soul and so perhaps I'm feeling too much about my past and this 33 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:22.800 is inappropriate. But I she caught me for there's a lady. Yeah, 34 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:25.639 here's a lady saying what's what? This is an extremely niche post. But 35 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:29.639 if you're a gen X female and you were in your chains or early twenties 36 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:32.280 in the night, please tell me you didn't go to Planned Parenthood and get 37 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:37.280 Ortho tricyclin. You can't tell me different. We're all the same, living 38 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:42.879 the same experience. Okay, so I didn't go to Planned Parenthood. I 39 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:46.439 didn't do that, but I did go to no Obgyn and I was on 40 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:51.840 author Tricyclin and then I was on Yasmin, which was bomb. I loved 41 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:54.479 Yasmin because listen, it took a couple tweakings to get me to the right 42 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:00.439 birth control for me that was and I loved Yasmin. I stayed on that 43 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:04.879 for years and it was great. And so I had a good experience with 44 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:09.360 birth control. I know nowadays the messaging now is birth control bad, birth 45 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:14.840 control bad, birth control evil birth control. Yeah right, it's listen. 46 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:20.800 It has side effects for some people. Some people don't have a good experience 47 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.240 with it, which is understandable. You know, I have chronic migraine and 48 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:30.879 so over since I've had chronic migraine since I was thirteen years old, before 49 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:34.280 I even started my period, because I started my period late. I mean, 50 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:36.240 this is way to image. This is TMI, you guys, But 51 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.280 I had to start my period till I was fifteen. I was a little 52 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:43.080 because I was an athlete, have really low body fat, but I but 53 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:46.039 anyways, I was one of those people who I just had chronic I've had 54 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:51.280 migraine since I was really really young, and so finding like the right preventatives 55 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:53.439 is one of those things that you have to tweak. I have tried every 56 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:59.520 preventative known to man, and now I have like what I think is probably 57 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:02.800 a good of preventatives to help me from like throwing up, you know, 58 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:08.680 and dying like every single month from chronic migraine. And even went off the 59 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:12.120 pill and that didn't help me. But I will but I will say that 60 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:14.840 the whole reason I'm saying this is because you have to kind of find the 61 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:18.120 right treatment for you, And I think that that applies to birth control as 62 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:21.240 well. I think sometimes if you want to take a birth control pill, 63 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:25.720 you have to find like the right one for you. And sometimes women will 64 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:28.120 get on one and then it won't work for them. They're like, birth 65 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:30.839 control is like the worst thing ever. I had a horrible experience. Okay, 66 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:32.800 well maybe you're just on the wrong one. You know, that could 67 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:35.120 for some people. That could just be on the wrong one, or it 68 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:40.879 could just be horrible for that individual person. But some of us did okay 69 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:45.720 on it. Yeah. So here's the deal is that there's all kinds of 70 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:49.560 young conservative influencers out there right now who this has become a huge topic for 71 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:54.759 because there's been a number of studies that they have latched onto that show that 72 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:58.680 and they're not necessarily new studies, although some of them are, but that 73 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:01.920 show that some birth cont oral contraceptives cause all these problems, have all these 74 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:05.040 risks, and they were never told about them, and doctors just hand them 75 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:10.279 out like candy, which is actually true. And especially if you go to 76 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:14.480 planned parenthood, they do not give a shit about educating you. They just 77 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:15.600 want your business. They just want to give you all the pills and go, 78 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:18.319 and they don't. They'll tell you about risks, they don't give you. 79 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:23.480 They don't even tell you necessarily that there's a lot of different options of 80 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:28.439 different oral contraceptives. Plant parents telling they're telling people that virgins aren't virgins anymore. 81 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:30.839 I mean, plant parenthood are the worst. Yeah, They're absolute worst, 82 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:35.240 right, Yeah, And so it's odd to see it's odd to see 83 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:42.399 this this sort of rise in the number of conservative influencer girls who and women 84 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:47.319 who are young women, young women who are really talking down about birth control 85 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:53.720 oral contraceptives, which have been studied for years. And it is true that 86 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:57.519 doctors aren't particularly good at sharing the information, but that's not to say the 87 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:00.959 information hasn't been out there. And so now that they're all like, oh 88 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.720 my god, this is it causes strokes and cancers and heart disease and all 89 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:10.079 of these things that it causes. This is the things that they also prevent 90 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:15.759 are are positive and these are decisions that have to be weighed by every single 91 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:20.160 individual. So it's a weird attack on oral contraception that's kind of seemed to 92 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:25.160 come out of nowhere. Yeah, And it's and it's like spreading like a 93 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:31.120 kudzoo in conservative circles. It's a little bit it's it's a little concerning because 94 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:35.519 you know, again I think it's an individual decision and there are some benefits 95 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:39.759 to it. I mean, because you know, some people will say, 96 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:43.639 Okay, it can cause cancer, but it also can prevent some cancers. 97 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:46.040 So you have to sort of way like, there's the whole it can cause 98 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:50.639 breast cancer thing. Okay, but it could also keep you from getting ovarian 99 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:56.000 and and a matrial cancer. So there's you have to these are the things 100 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:00.560 that doctors need to be teaching young women. And then you have to way, 101 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:03.600 you know what works for you. Like for me, I loved being 102 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:09.519 on the pill when I was on Yet I loved it because it made my 103 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:14.680 my periods a little bit more manageable and tolerable. It wasn't like so painful. 104 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.040 And then on top of that, I was able to schedule things around 105 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:20.399 it. Yeah, they're predictive. Loved it. They were predictable, right, 106 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:26.240 I mean I planned my wedding around my period and my honey. I 107 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:29.040 mean things like that. I was just I love that I love and I 108 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:31.079 am a very planning kind of person, and so it appealed. I loved 109 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.480 being able to do that on the pill. And then also you know, 110 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:40.959 for me, like just hormones in general are a big point of contention, 111 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:45.720 like from my body because and now I have severe you know, osteoporosis, 112 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:49.120 osteopenia, and so like if you don't have estrogen in check, that is 113 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:54.040 a huge concern. And you know, as we can and we can get 114 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:57.600 to this in a second, but when we get to the point where you 115 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:01.319 know, we're older women, we can talk about HRT, which is something 116 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:05.480 that we probably need to discuss. But I look at some of these girls, 117 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:09.439 these young girls, and I'm like, okay, there's I just I 118 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:13.879 don't understand the whole I don't want to take this birth control because it's toxic 119 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:20.639 or it's you know, it's unnatural, it causes all these issues. But 120 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.600 then you know, on their TikTok feed or their Instagram feeds, like in 121 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.639 the same breath, they'll do a post on how they they're shoving botulism in 122 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:35.480 their faces, you know, or they're popping all the antidepressants, right, 123 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:39.480 and that's considered self care to them. Yeah, But yet they'll be out 124 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:43.639 there preaching about you know, how horrible birth control is. And I'm like, 125 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:48.799 wait, what, what's the disconnect here? I don't understand because that 126 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.480 I feel like, you know a lot of these things, there's just we 127 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:56.039 don't know the ramification do we know? Do you know the ramifications of shoving 128 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:00.960 you know, a toxin in your in your head? Do you and preaching 129 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:05.960 that that is somehow self care because there's a little bit of hypocrisy there. 130 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:07.960 Oh, there's a lot of hypocrisy. And it just seems like such an 131 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:16.080 out of the blue attack by conservative influencers out there who are discouraging other young 132 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:20.840 women from choosing oral contraceptives, even though they may be the right choice for 133 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:24.440 many many women. They were the right choice for me, they were the 134 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:28.799 right choice for you, and they were not something that caused us any long 135 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:33.080 term harm. And perhaps that's not always true. I mean, I'm sure 136 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:39.279 there are people who suffer the side effects that are listed in the giant killer 137 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:41.919 that comes in with every right pill pack, and that's unfortunate. But that 138 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:48.440 is true of freaking tailanol. That's true of every single drug. And so 139 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:56.679 it just seems almost like an unfair attack on all contraceptions which have prevented lots 140 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:01.639 and lots and lots of unwanted pregnancies and possibly cancer in many, many women. 141 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:05.360 So it's odd to me, especially because now we're hearing about some really 142 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:11.559 far out there studies. Mikhayela Peterson, Jordan Peterson's daughter who has a podcast. 143 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.879 She was talking to a doctor about I guess a fairly recent study about 144 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:22.840 how your attraction to the opposite sex changes depending on whether or not you're on 145 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:26.919 oral contraception. This is bizarre. Check this out. It's true that the 146 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:33.159 birth control pill can change your perception of who you're attracted to for a woman, 147 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:35.879 Yeah, you know, if that is a possibility. Researchers have been 148 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:41.919 finding that the men were chosen by women as partners that were on horbital birth 149 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:46.559 control, they have less masculine faces relative to the men who were chosen by 150 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:50.639 naturally cycling women, which is really mind blowing when you think about it. 151 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:54.559 There are other factors at play here. I think that it's I think it's 152 00:10:54.639 --> 00:11:00.919 very possible because there have been there have also been studies that men's to stosterone 153 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:05.080 is dropping in the world, and that I feel like there's got to be 154 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.519 some sort of a we got to talk about that too, right, when 155 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:13.279 you're talking in relation to this one study that they did plus plus don't you 156 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:20.000 think that just men overall are in the world are becoming less masculine. I 157 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:26.080 mean, and that's a whole other problem caused by the like the emasculation of 158 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:30.200 men. I mean, there's just so many lefty feminist weirdos, right, 159 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:35.039 There's just less Chris Hemsworth's in the world, you know, and we need 160 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:37.360 more of those. We need way more those, lot more. You have 161 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:41.080 more Jason Momoa's out there, you know. This is the thing. I 162 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:43.360 think. I feel like there's just less and less of those, and I 163 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:48.360 think that's like a whole other like, that's just a whole other discussion that 164 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.039 has nothing to do with the way that we even perceive them or look at 165 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.480 them. It's them, yeah, you know what I mean. It's not 166 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:01.039 even a percesion thing. It's a them thing. There was guy I was 167 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:03.720 telling you about this guy this and this messaging is getting widespread. So I 168 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.919 was a guy who's TikTok I saw who was so freaked out by that particular 169 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:13.399 study that he was like extrapolating out to possibilities in the future where he was 170 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:16.960 saying, well, that's horrible, because what if I, you know, 171 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:20.200 fall in love and get married to a woman who's on birth control and she 172 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:22.960 loves me and she's super into me, and then we decide to have a 173 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.440 family and she gets off birth of control and somehow she's all of a sudden 174 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:31.600 no longer attracted to me because her birth control was effing with her mind. 175 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:35.480 And I'm like this, dude, you're this is a this is a new 176 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:39.200 fear unlocked that needs to be locked back up in the box. It's crazy. 177 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:43.000 It does need to be locked back up in a box because people change 178 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.960 in marriage. People change. I mean, I don't look like I did 179 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:50.600 when I married my husband, you know what, sixteen years ago. I'm 180 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:56.120 not the same person visually, I'm I'm older now, he's older, he's 181 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:01.480 bold. He wasn't bald when I married him. It's like people age, 182 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:05.559 and that's okay. I hope to God that you don't marry the person that 183 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:09.519 you marry just because of the way that they look, but for all sorts 184 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:13.480 of reasons and because of a holistic view of that person. So that's a 185 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:18.559 whole other conversation too, like what are we doing that's weird. You know, 186 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:20.840 I love my husband for all sorts of reasons. I'm physically attracted to 187 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:26.360 him, but that's not the only reason that I married him is because of 188 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:28.399 and when I look at him now, I look, I see the person 189 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:33.159 that I married. You see what I'm saying, It's like I So that 190 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:37.480 doesn't that argument doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand that well. 191 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.559 And hormones are a crazy thing. And so yeah, granted, when 192 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:45.240 you go on the pill, you are introducing hormones into your body that are 193 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.440 not necessarily your body's making them on their own, and in some with some 194 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:54.720 women, these birth control pills can absolutely solve all kinds of issues, like 195 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:58.279 they did. My sister was also to Jasmine forever. It still takes it 196 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:03.960 yasmin as she and she continues to take it even you know, she's on 197 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:07.879 the way to her fifties, because without it, she feels insane and she 198 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:13.000 has terrible skin, and like, she goes through all these issues when she's 199 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.559 not on it. So for every person who has problems with it, there's 200 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:20.480 another person who experiences extraordinary benefits from it, which is why I thought it 201 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:24.519 was so good. There was a doctor too, that producer Vallan had found 202 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:30.320 this doctor that apparently she's also seen all of these videos of everybody freaking out 203 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:33.279 about oral contraception, and she put out a video to tell people, here's 204 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:37.559 definitively what the wrong birth control for you is. And I thought this was 205 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.240 absolutely perfect. I'm bet obdu Ann, and I'm going to tell you the 206 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:43.600 worst form of birth Get ready to take notes, because you can't miss us. 207 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:48.000 The number one birth control is the one that doesn't work for you. 208 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:52.519 So while in IUD maybe highly effective, you don't want it or you don't 209 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:56.879 like it. That's not good. Birth Control pills work really well if you 210 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:58.639 take it perfectly, but if you can't remember how to take it billed every 211 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:01.360 day, that's not going to work for you. The best form of birth 212 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:05.240 control is the one that you want, that works for your lifestyle, and 213 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:07.879 that you can access if you have questions about different kinds of birth control and 214 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:13.519 to bedside or have work for more. Wait, so women can actually figure 215 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:18.360 out what works best for them individually. Oh my god, what a concept. 216 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:22.320 What a concept? I know, that's crazy. Like our oldest daughter, 217 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:28.399 she can't take birth control because she has blood clotting issues and so it 218 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.360 doesn't work for her now, my fourteen year old. At some point in 219 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.320 her life, she may decide that she wants to take birth control and she 220 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:37.799 may or may not love it, and that is her decision to make. 221 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:41.360 You know, I feel like this is the thing. It's an individual thing. 222 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:43.960 But to have people telling you, my god, it's evil if you 223 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.559 shouldn't take it. It's kind of like what I said with the migraine preventatives. 224 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:50.919 It is an individual thing where you have to figure out it's I think 225 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:54.600 a lot of this, maybe not a lot, but some of it may 226 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:56.960 stem from the fact that we went through the whole COVID thing. And maybe 227 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:00.960 some people in this generation are so freaked out by pharma right for sure, 228 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:06.519 which is totally understandable, right, but you know, I worked in pharma 229 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:08.320 for like twenty years, and I get it, you know, because I 230 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:11.960 didn't I didn't take the vaccine. I don't want to. And I totally 231 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:18.039 understand that people have trepidation with pharma as a whole. But you also have 232 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:22.720 to think critically here, you know, because pharma is not I understand that 233 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:25.440 people are like, they're evil, they're awful, they're terrible. But then 234 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:27.720 they've also done some really good things. Like I'm sure these same people, 235 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:30.200 these same women who would be like, oh my god, birth control is 236 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:36.000 terrible, will take an antibiotic when they have, you know, an infection. 237 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:38.320 And there are certain there are certain and I you know, I take 238 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:42.399 migraine preventative, which is literally saved. I would not be doing this podcast 239 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:45.639 if I wasn't on migraine preventatives. You know, I would be debilitated, 240 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:49.919 right, So, I mean there are certain things where there are certain drugs 241 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:56.120 that have been amazing. I mean, the pharma industry needs to be applauded 242 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:59.120 for some of the things that they have done. They can't be completely and 243 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:03.399 totally demonied for everything. And so I get a little bit squirrely when people 244 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:04.440 are like they're just evil, They're totally evil. It's like, Okay, 245 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:07.559 well, have you ever taken a tile and all because that the pharma industry 246 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:11.640 gave you that tile in all? Has your kid ever had an infection where 247 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:14.400 they need an antibotic? Well, the farmer industry did that, and it 248 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:17.400 was because of years of R and D. And years of R and D 249 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:21.000 went into making the birth control pill too. Yeah, and it came you 250 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:25.160 know, came out in nineteen sixty and there's been studies and improvements to the 251 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:27.960 pill since then, and so there's pills now. I don't even know some 252 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:32.200 of the birth control that's available now. Obviously I do not need that, 253 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:36.039 right I don't either. I don't either, which we probably should talk about 254 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:37.720 next. And before we do that, we probably need to talk about genucell 255 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.559 and how awesome people like when we talk about botox, you don't need botox, 256 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.799 you guys, you can use genucell. You can totally use genucell because 257 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:48.519 it's awesome. In fact, I have some right here. I have the 258 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:51.519 Gen ninety. I have the gen ninety. Ye. Yeah, that's the 259 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:52.880 stuff right there. You gout. This is it's amazing. This is the 260 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:59.599 reason that genucel has such huge customer loyalty, like it's four hundred percent better 261 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.319 or something that other skincare products out there, because when you try any of 262 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:08.759 the products in the line of Genucell skincare, it's it's just it hits different, 263 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:14.480 as the kids say today, and you can just tell all of the 264 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:18.240 products that they make are such this amazing quality, and in particular Gen ninety, 265 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:25.880 which is like eons ahead of other skinned h skin care line technologies. 266 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:27.720 This is for the anti wrinkles. So you put it anywhere, like if 267 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:32.480 it's around your eyes or your forehead or forever. Yeah, and it makes 268 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:34.680 the sound like we always describe it as going. So what you're saying is 269 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:38.279 that it's giving botox, but it's not actually botox, as what the car 270 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:42.599 It's just giving botox, right, uh huh exactly, that's right, and 271 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:48.279 it's absolutely amazing. It's part of the most popular package right now at genucell 272 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.720 dot com slash Chicks, and so too is the Genucel XV moisturizer, which 273 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:56.880 is the bomb. It's so often and if you order now you can also 274 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:00.839 they're gonna throw in a free beauty box and a deep firming serum. This 275 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:04.480 is just while supplies last, So if you haven't tried it now, now's 276 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:07.839 a great time because they're thrown in all the free stuff plus free shipping. 277 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:15.000 So visit genucell dot com slash Chicks. It's ge and u cel dot com 278 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:22.240 slash shs. So, you know, speaking of like wrinkle cream and getting 279 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:25.799 older, I want to look back in about twenty years and see what these 280 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:32.359 same girls these young women have to say about HRT or replacement therapy because they 281 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:37.319 can't take HRT. If they're saying that they don't believe in birth control and 282 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:41.559 not be they can't. They'll be hypocrites, you see what I'm saying. 283 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:45.680 And it's a lot of these listen. I twenty thirties and forties were a 284 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:52.759 piece of cake compared to menopause piece. It's true cake. Menopause is a 285 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:57.000 bitch. It's a bitch, ladies. And seriously, like, I want 286 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:00.279 to see how they how they handle it. And I'm well, we're going 287 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:03.400 to be dead by them, so right, we'll probably be dead by the 288 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:07.160 time that they all. It's so true. And weirdly enough, I liked 289 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:11.839 birth control when I was younger, but I've tried two different kinds of HRT 290 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:17.359 because menopause symptoms are nothing like you've ever experienced before as a woman. And 291 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:21.039 so buckle up, young ladies, if you if you're not, buckle up. 292 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:23.720 And so I've tried two different kinds and I'm not a fan. I 293 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:27.559 don't like HRT. I've tried the pellets. I don't like them, and 294 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:32.160 in fact, it it did some things to my body that I didn't like, 295 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:34.640 and then i've I'm dangerous things to your body. It did dangerously. 296 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:41.720 My body industry is so oddly a little weirdly whack right exactly, And there's 297 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:45.240 and I don't think that there's yeah, there's not enough regulation there. And 298 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.279 then now I'm doing like a little patch, like a little estra how do 299 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:52.119 you pronounce it? Estra? Die all patch and a little bit of progesterone 300 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:55.240 just to kind of because and a lot of it has to do for me. 301 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:57.240 It's about my bones, keeping my bones healthy, and that helps a 302 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:00.119 little if I have a little boost because I had zero estrogene my bi I 303 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:03.039 just wanted a little bit of a boost, and so I thought, okay, 304 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:06.799 well this will help. I don't like it. I'm not a fan, 305 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:10.680 so I probably will just end up doing nothing, which is what the 306 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:12.960 younger girls are saying you should totally do. But I would never say to 307 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:18.839 somebody my age, don't do HRT because it really helps women our age. 308 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:23.000 Some women love the pellets. Some women love HRT. Some women, I 309 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:26.279 mean they swear by it. They just feel like an old lady and they 310 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:32.119 feel old before their time, and that everything starts melting, you know, 311 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:34.119 what I mean. And then you get the hot flashes on top of it. 312 00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:37.880 Oh my god, you feel like you can't sleep. You are literally 313 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:41.839 sweating your ass off, like four times a night. It's and it's ten 314 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:45.200 years of it, you guys. It's like, so I want to see 315 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:51.519 how these these young girls feel when they're older and they're faced with the decision 316 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:56.119 of having to do or not having to do HRT because it is literally the 317 00:21:56.160 --> 00:22:00.319 same thing as birth control. It's it's putting, and it's also went through 318 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:04.839 a big scare. There was like this whole study that was done and then 319 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:10.279 it's been picked apart since then, but it absolutely My mom was part of 320 00:22:10.279 --> 00:22:14.079 this group. So when my mom was going through metopause, it was immediate, 321 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:15.240 like doctors didn't even think twice. They were just like, here you 322 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:18.000 go. You're on estrogen. Now, hot flashes are going to go away. 323 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:21.839 And she was like, this is a miracle. She felt amazing. 324 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:23.319 She was on it for years, and then all of a sudden, the 325 00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:27.319 study came out and scared everybody to death and said, oh my god, 326 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:30.799 you're gonna get all the cancers. Everything's horrible. Get off of it. 327 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:34.920 Immediately she got off it. She felt awful. And then it's now it's 328 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:40.720 shown that that study had all kinds of flaws in it that for most women 329 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:44.119 it's completely safe to be on HRT. Now for me, I loved being 330 00:22:44.119 --> 00:22:47.599 on it too, but I can't be because I'm in a risk group. 331 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:52.079 That it makes it not make sense because I had a stroke and so mine 332 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:56.720 was caused by a hole in my heart. But if I'm susceptible to clouding 333 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:57.960 already, it's not for me and I can't take it. And it's fine. 334 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:02.599 So but goes back to our original point, which is you have to 335 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:07.240 make an individual decision and way the risks and benefits for your own body. 336 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:11.359 And so all of these scary oh my god, the world is ending about 337 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:15.119 birth control. All of these conservative influencers who are doing that to women right 338 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:18.559 now are doing them a huge disservice because the scaring women and thinking, well, 339 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:21.920 this person I trust online says this, So now I'm not going to 340 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:26.599 make that personal decision, right And that's the problem is that they're influential, 341 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:32.240 and that's yeah, there's a responsibility there right now. Your mother was a 342 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:37.200 scientist. My mom was not a scientist. She was my mom, and 343 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:41.200 she was an education and she actually ended up she said, I don't want 344 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:44.480 to take anything when I go into menopause. She did nothing. She did 345 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:47.400 exactly like what some of these younger girls are doing. She's like, I 346 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:48.960 don't want anything synthetic in my body. She's one of those. I mean 347 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:52.160 she she mom, if you're listening, she should have just been a hippie, 348 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:55.519 you know, she's one of those. And so she's like, I 349 00:23:55.519 --> 00:23:59.039 want nothing, and she was fine, right, But it's one of those 350 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:02.200 things. So it's like they're And the reason I say that is because again, 351 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:04.599 it's an individual choice thing. So your mom loved it. My mom 352 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:07.480 was fine without things. And then for me, I'm like, I kind 353 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:11.359 of want to try it just to see, and I'm probably gonna do nothing. 354 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:14.960 You know, I'm probably gonna because I've tried a couple things and I 355 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:18.119 don't like it. Because again, it is not a one size fits all 356 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:22.400 thing. Hormones and hormone replacement therapy and birth control and all the things that 357 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:26.319 we're talking about is not a one size fits all. And I think a 358 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:30.079 lot of these influencers are trying to make it a one size fits all, 359 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:33.640 and that is our point is that it's not. It is very very individual 360 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:38.720 and specific to your body and your body chemistry and how you metabolize things, 361 00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:45.720 and the pharmacokinetics of a drug and how your body metabolized everything. There's so 362 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:52.920 much that goes into and to just pharmaceuticals in general, and I think people 363 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:56.200 are simplifying this in a way that it doesn't need to be and that it 364 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:00.599 shouldn't be simplified. Yeah, and then talking about risks being you have this 365 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:03.400 increased risk of this and that and this and that, But then when you 366 00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:07.960 actually look at the numbers, the risk is so minuscule, depending like you 367 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:11.200 might be a woman who's suffering a certain symptom that the pill can actually help 368 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:15.440 a lot, and so the risk is worth it, right, because the 369 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:18.759 symptom that you're facing is so awful that you would rather face a tiny risk 370 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:23.359 of maybe getting you know, a higher chance of having some sort of illness. 371 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:27.440 But again, it's so individual, and that's why it's it is concerning 372 00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:33.440 to see so many people jumping on this bandwagon and demonizing birth control or oral 373 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:37.240 contraception when that has been around for a really long time and has worked really, 374 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:41.559 really well without negative consequences. For a ton of women. Can we 375 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:44.680 just and so what's best for each person? And real quick because I know 376 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:45.880 we're wrapping up, but real quick, something that we haven't touched on, 377 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:52.240 which I'm just gonna say it out loud. I would I would much rather 378 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:56.640 a woman be on birth control if she can tolerate it and she's okay with 379 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:02.240 it and she likes it, then to have an abortion. As a pro 380 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:07.759 life person, I would much rather see a woman be on synthetic birth control 381 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:11.480 than to down the road like take a life. You know what I mean? 382 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:15.039 I don't like. I just and that's and that happens. We see, 383 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:18.759 we see it happen, you know where if if a girl is afraid 384 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:22.599 or whatever or they're not educated or they feel like they can't take and then 385 00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:26.480 down the road they they have And why would you want that? Why would 386 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:30.119 you ever? As a pro life person, why would you want that? 387 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:34.359 I don't understand that line of thinking. I know, so yeah, And 388 00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:38.400 I also don't understand people that haven't tried Omaha Steaks yet. I don't either. 389 00:26:38.759 --> 00:26:42.279 I don't get it. I don't subscribe, get it and get all 390 00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:47.039 the good things. Why they have descriptions now, oh, my gosh, 391 00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:51.039 it is even happening. I'm so stoked about the subscription service. So this 392 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:53.559 is like at least they're it's now being promoted. 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I'm gonna try to stay 423 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.640 alive just so I can check back in twenty twenty five years, thirty years 424 00:28:57.160 --> 00:29:00.640 and just see what these chicks are doing when they're staring down the menopause. 425 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:04.880 Barrel, I will say that one of them too, who like is a 426 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:11.519 famous botox and like, what's all the other stuff the killer like filler fillers 427 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:14.160 and all the crap she puts in her face? Yeah, And it used 428 00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:15.640 to be that she would promote it and be like, here's who I saw 429 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:19.359 it, and here's where it's all on. Yeah, and that's as talking 430 00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:25.039 about how mean and horrible birth control is. She's scrubbs and all the stuff 431 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:26.519 in the food, like all the stuff in our food is toxic, all 432 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.599 the stuff all this is toxic. That's toxic. This is unnatural. That's 433 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.519 it. I'm like, And that is literally like all she talks about. 434 00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:37.279 And it's like, but she puts so much shit in your face, like 435 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:41.680 what is this? And then we'll see how that turns out for these chicks 436 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:45.160 when they're fifty, because it's not you're gonna look like a cat, You're 437 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.680 gonna you're gonna look like a Kardasha Cat is what you're gonna look like, 438 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:55.440 just saying anyway, you got control. Stay tuned for their own stay tuned, 439 00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:57.799 Yeah, stay tuned for the hate mail. Yeah, well PA did 440 00:29:57.839 --> 00:30:04.319 do a follow up on that, by everybody. Mhm