Women on birth control, watch out: You might want to think twice before eating your next grapefruit. Three days in a row of it almost cost a woman her leg.
It turns out the citrus fruit interacts with a number of drugs, and unfortunately for one 42-year-old woman in Washington, the birth control she was taking happened to be one of them. Grapefruit magnifies the pill’s estrogen effects, one of which is increasing the chances of a blood clot. She was also found to have a gene mutation, the factor V Leiden, which ups the the risk of blood clotting even more.
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Remember how all the Prozac we’ve been flushing through our systems (and our sewers) was entering the water supply and messing with the fish? Well, a new argument claims that this is precisely what’s going on with men who’re having a little trouble in the fertility department. And just who is making this rather dubious claim? None other than the Pope himself.
According to His Eminence, the demon birth control is finding its way from the urine of loose women into the otherwise-pure systems of unsuspecting males, robbing them of their baby-making mojo.
Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, stated that the pill “has for some years had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of hormones into nature,” and as a result “[w]e have sufficient evidence to state that a non-negligible cause of male infertility in the West is the environmental pollution caused by the pill.”
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