Dr. Jen Gunter
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Podcast Appearances
I'm going to put in a plug for my book, Blood, the science, medicine, and mythology of menstruation, where I talk about all of, explain all of these issues about hormones and about what you might hear online about birth control and what's true and what isn't.
And, you know, what is, what are the statistics on depression?
What are the statistics here?
And so people can make an informed choice.
So then they can decide if you hear an, I have a very low tolerance.
If someone gives me misinformation once, you know,
I'm almost certainly out because I'm always worried, you know, what's going to be the next the next thing.
And so I think that the answer is information.
I mean, I.
I could easily, and this is one of the reasons why I rarely talk about like on my own social media page about things that happened to me.
This is not fair.
I mean, I could scare people about pregnancies, right?
If I talked about, you know, what happened to me, I may be like, hey, no one should ever be pregnant, but that's my story.
I could also say if I hadn't been on the birth control pill, I wouldn't have been able to be a surgeon.
I had incredible heavy, incredible painful periods.
And I was dismissed by my doctor told me I should eat liver, right?
I'm like, really?
Like, that's the best.
Yeah, right.
She was ahead of her time, you know?