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S4 E11: Dr. Sophia Yen on birth control, #PeriodsOptional, menopause, emergency contraception, and what your BMI has to do with it.
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GUEST BIO
Dr. Sophia Yen is a Co-Founder of Pandia Health, expert online women’s hormonal healthcare: from birth control to menopause and more. She graduated MIT, UCSF Medical School, and UC Berkeley with an MPH. With 20+ years in medicine, she’s also a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford Medical School in Adolescent Medicine. Her passion is making women’s lives better She’s also the Mother of 2 future sheheroes and wife of a feminist. Taiwanese-American married to a Korean-American (feel free to cut the last 2 lines or edit as you will).
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MENTIONED
- Plan C Pills - Abortion Access
- Inequality in Maternal Outcomes
- Maternity leave in Mexico
- Maternity leave in Canada
- Maternity leave in the U.S.
- Dr. Rebecca Gomperts from the Netherlands
- Calculate your BMI
TAKEAWAYS
- Sex Ed is more than just "how to not get pregnant". And. Ladies, you deserve satisfaction too.
- Emergency contraception: Plan B only works well if your BMI is <=25. Ella works for BMI <= 35. Copper IUD works for all BMIs
- Hormonal birth control doesn't hurt your fertility. In fact it's often used before fertility treatments to stabilize hormone levels.
- Best to worst: the implant, vasectomy, hormonal IUD, tubal ligation, copper IUD, the shot, the ring, the patch, then the pills.
- If you're getting an IUD, you should be given pain management. DEMAND IT. (*paracervical block)
- There are treatments to help you transition in perimenopause and menopause. You don't have to suffer through hot flashes. Estrogen replacement also helps you avoid a lot of health complications from menopause.
- Women used to have 100 periods in their lifetime (8 kids), now they have 350-400 and each time we risk developing ovarian, endometrial or colon cancer. But periods are optional!!!
- The pill that works best for white women often doesn't for Black/Asian women. Find the right one for you.
- Disaggregating "Asian American" in medical research can help better identify genetic differences in our bodies' response to treatments.
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