Heart Disease and Birth Control

This is an older article but it is still worth the read. We know the positive things they tell us about birth control. It is prescribed to regulate the cycle of those who are hormonally imballanced. It is prescribed to teens to help fight acne. 

Birth Control Pills, B6, & Heart Disease Sunday, May 25, 2008 Byron Richards, CCN


A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition adds further evidence linking the use of birth control pills to an increase in heart disease.  Researchers were quite surprised to see a societal deficiency in vitamin B6 in women of childbearing age, especially women who have or were taking birth control pills.  Former birth control pill users had significantly elevated homocysteine, which leads to the build up of arterial plaque and consequent heart disease. 

The FDA will not warn women of this important vitamin deficiency because the FDA finds it intolerable to recommend vitamins in the name of public health.  This is true even though an intake of 5 mgs of pyridoxal 5' phosphate per day, as found in a high quality multiple vitamin or B complex product, could save millions of women's lives.

The only reason that folic acid was ever recommended for the general public, after the FDA allowed thousands of cases of neural tube defects for a decade after it had the data, was because Congress threatened to haul the head of the FDA before a panel of mothers so it could explain to them why their babies were injured.

Oddly enough, the FDA has never required that the makers of birth control pills prove that they are safe with appropriate follow up