Studies show that women on “the pill” are twice as likely to develop depression
 

ASHLAND, OR - New studies show what many women taking oral contraceptives have struggled with for decades; being on “the pill” can cause the Birth Control Blues. Multiple reports now confirm that oral contraceptives double the risk of developing depression, leading many women to become uneccesarily dependent on antidepressant medications that have serious side effects of their own.

The Pill Problem, a new book by pharamcist Ross Pelton–the world's leading expert on drug-induced nutrient depletions–offers nutrional strategies to help women taking the pill avoid the Birth Control Blues along with a wide range of other serious side effects caused by oral contraceptives. The book is a follow up to his breakthrough 1995 bookHow To Prevent Breast Cancer (Simon & Schuster) and The Drug-Induced Nutrient Depletion Handbook (Lexi-Comp).

The Pill Problem: How to Protect Your Health from the Side Effects of Oral Contraceptives is a nutritional health manual for women that devotes 15 short information-packed chapters to the most common side effects of the pill. Each chapter outlines various nutrient depletions underlying the condition and offers detailed descriptions of health problems that can be prevented or corrected with a complimentary regimen of the right nutritional supplements and other lifestyle prescriptions.It is estimated that 80 percent of women born since 1945 have taken oral contraceptives at some time in their life–most completely unaware that prolonged usage can cause serious long-term side effects which can culminate in life-threatening conditions, even long after usage has been discontinued. Because many of the long-term side effects of the pill are initially invisible, most women only learn about them decades later when a health crisis hits, making it much harder for the kind of gentle lifestyle prescriptions inThe Pill Problem to be effective.“Most drugs deplete one, or even several nutrients, while oral contraceptives deplete more nutrients than any other class of commonly prescribed drugs," says Ross Pelton, author of The Pill Problem.Although possible long-term side effects of “the pill” may not seem urgent, Pelton urges women to take nutritional steps while they can, before serious health problems develop later in life which require more intensive and invasive treatments. Oral contraceptives cause the depletion of a wide range of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, neurotransmitters and antioxidants that can dramatically increase a woman’s risk for side effects such as depression, sleep disorders, anemia, low energy, migraine headaches, sexual problems, heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, weakened immune system, birth defects, premature aging, and cancers of the uterus, colon and breast.The Pill Problem takes aim at these and other life-threatening conditions that can be caused by chronic nutrient depletions. . Request Review Copy CONTACT: media@naturalpharmacist.net, (541) 359-1886