Is Birth Control a Good Idea for Perimenopause Hormone Balance?

Many women enter perimenopause dealing with irregular bleeding, hot flashes, mood swings, anxiety, and poor sleep. They go to their OBGYN looking for relief and leave with a prescription for birth control. It seems simple and familiar, but birth control was never designed to support perimenopause. It was designed to shut down ovulation using synthetic hormones at doses far higher than what a perimenopausal body actually needs.
Hi, I’m Dr. Rajka, a Functional Medicine MD and triple board-certified physician. At 56, I feel sharper and more energized than I did in my 20s and 30s, and I want the same for you.

In this episode, I explain why prescribing birth control for perimenopausal symptoms is one of the biggest mistakes being made in women’s healthcare, and why it often makes symptoms worse instead of better.

You’ll Discover:
●The difference between bioidentical estradiol and synthetic ethinyl estradiol
●Why most women in perimenopause are not estrogen deficient, but progesterone deficient
●How birth control overrides ovarian function instead of supporting it
●Why progestin is not the same as natural progesterone
●How birth control crashes free testosterone
●The real impact on libido, energy, motivation, and muscle mass
●Why testosterone recovery can take up to a year after stopping the pill
●How birth control depletes key B vitamins, worsening fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, and mood changes

Perimenopause is not about shutting down your ovaries. It’s about supporting your body through a natural hormonal transition. Birth control and hormone replacement therapy are not the same thing, and you deserve a provider who understands the difference.

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