If This Holds Up, That’s the End of Long Term Use of The Pill – and It Explains … a Lot. https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/30/if-this-holds-up-thats-the-end-of-long-term-use-of-the-pill-and-it-explains-a-lot/
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If This Holds Up, That’s the End of Long Term Use of The Pill – and It Explains … a Lot. https://t.co/oo2ki0fQhY
Dec 5, 2019, 8:59 PM Key brain region smaller in birth control pill users Neuroscience News Summary: A new neuroimaging study reveals women who take oral contraception have reduced hypothalamic volume compared to women who do not take the pill. Smaller hypothalamic volume was associated with increased negative emotions and depression risk. Source: RSNA Researchers studying the brain found that women taking oral contraceptives, commonly known as birth control pills, had significantly smaller hypothalamus volume, compared to women not taking the pill, according to a new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Located at the base of the brain above the pituitary gland, the hypothalamus produces hormones and helps regulate essential bodily functions including body temperature, mood, appetite, sex drive, sleep cycles and heart rate. Structural effects of sex hormones, including oral contraceptive pills, on the human hypothalamus have never been reported, according to the researchers. This may be in part because validated methods to quantitatively analyze MRI exams of the hypothalamus have not been available. “There is a lack of research on the effects of oral contraceptives on this small but essential part of the living human brain,” said Michael L. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., FACR, professor of radiology at the Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and medical director of MRI Services at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. “We validated methods for assessing the volume of the hypothalamus and confirm, for the first time, that current oral contraceptive pill usage is associated with smaller hypothalamic volume.” Oral contraceptives are among the most popular forms of birth control and are also used to treat a host of conditions, including irregular menstruation, cramps, acne, endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome. According to a 2018 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, from 2015 to 2017 approximately 47 million women aged 15-49 in the U.S. reported current use of contraceptives. Of those, 12.6% used the pill. In his study, Dr. Lipton and colleagues recruited a group of 50 healthy women, including 21 women who were taking oral contraceptives. All 50 women underwent brain MRI, and a validated approach was used to measure hypothalamic volume. This shows the brain scans of the hypothalamus Brain MRI depicting hypothalamus in red. The image is credited to the study author and RSNA. “We found a dramatic difference in the size of the brain structures between women who were taking oral contraceptives and those who were not,” Dr. Lipton said. “This initial study shows a strong association and should motivate further investigation into the effects of oral contraceptives on brain structure and their potential impact on brain function.” Other findings from the study, which Dr. Lipton described as “preliminary,” were that smaller hypothalamic volume was also associated with greater anger and showed a strong correlation with depressive symptoms. However, the study found no significant correlation between hypothalamic volume and cognitive performance. Co-authors are Ke Xun Chen, M.D., Sandie Worley, B.S., Henry J. Foster, B.S., David Edasery, M.D., Shima Roknsharifi, M.D., and Chloe Ifrah, B.A. Funding: The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and by The Dana Foundation.
Dec 5, 2019, 8:59 PM Key brain region smaller in birth control pill users Neuroscience News Summary: A new neuroimaging study reveals women who take oral contraception have reduced hypothalamic volume compared to women who do not take the pill. Smaller hypothalamic volume was associated with increased negative emotions and depression risk. Source: RSNA Researchers studying the brain found that women taking oral contraceptives, commonly known as birth control pills, had significantly smaller hypothalamus volume, compared to women not taking the pill, according to a new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Located at the base of the brain above the pituitary gland, the hypothalamus produces hormones and helps regulate essential bodily functions including body temperature, mood, appetite, sex drive, sleep cycles and heart rate. Structural effects of sex hormones, including oral contraceptive pills, on the human hypothalamus have never been reported, according to the researchers. This may be in part because validated methods to quantitatively analyze MRI exams of the hypothalamus have not been available. “There is a lack of research on the effects of oral contraceptives on this small but essential part of the living human brain,” said Michael L. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., FACR, professor of radiology at the Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and medical director of MRI Services at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. “We validated methods for assessing the volume of the hypothalamus and confirm, for the first time, that current oral contraceptive pill usage is associated with smaller hypothalamic volume.” Oral contraceptives are among the most popular forms of birth control and are also used to treat a host of conditions, including irregular menstruation, cramps, acne, endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome. According to a 2018 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, from 2015 to 2017 approximately 47 million women aged 15-49 in the U.S. reported current use of contraceptives. Of those, 12.6% used the pill. In his study, Dr. Lipton and colleagues recruited a group of 50 healthy women, including 21 women who were taking oral contraceptives. All 50 women underwent brain MRI, and a validated approach was used to measure hypothalamic volume. This shows the brain scans of the hypothalamus Brain MRI depicting hypothalamus in red. The image is credited to the study author and RSNA. “We found a dramatic difference in the size of the brain structures between women who were taking oral contraceptives and those who were not,” Dr. Lipton said. “This initial study shows a strong association and should motivate further investigation into the effects of oral contraceptives on brain structure and their potential impact on brain function.” Other findings from the study, which Dr. Lipton described as “preliminary,” were that smaller hypothalamic volume was also associated with greater anger and showed a strong correlation with depressive symptoms. However, the study found no significant correlation between hypothalamic volume and cognitive performance. Co-authors are Ke Xun Chen, M.D., Sandie Worley, B.S., Henry J. Foster, B.S., David Edasery, M.D., Shima Roknsharifi, M.D., and Chloe Ifrah, B.A. Funding: The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and by The Dana Foundation.
Dec 5, 2019, 9:23 PM HYPOTHALAMUS (Regarding drastic difference in women taking ‘the pill’.) (Hypothesis: the female brain evolved to sustain moods in the care of children, and absent children the female brain does not mature, and in the absence of the reproductive cycle declines. Which is what we see in the data. So without competition boys infantilize and without children girls infantilize – and infantilizing causes behavior in humans similar to caged animals in zoos.) WHAT DOES THE HYPOTHALAMUS DO? The hypothalamus is a portion of the brain that contains a number of small nuclei (groups of neurons that work to calculate specialized functions). All vertebrate brains contain a hypothalamus. In humans, it is the size of an almond. The hypothalamus links the nervous system to the endocrine system via the pituitary gland and is responsible for the regulation of multiple metabolic processes and other functions of the autonomic nervous system (what you can’t control. By synthesizing and secreting certain neurohormones, called Releasing Hormones or Hypothalamic Hormones (messengers), that stimulate or inhibit the secretion of hormones from the pituitary gland, causing your body to react to real or imagined information by translating information for the pituitary gland. Using these messages, the hypothalamus controls body temperature, hunger, important aspects of parenting and attachment behaviors, thirst, fatigue, sleep, and circadian rhythms. The human male and female reproductive cycles are controlled by the interaction of hormones from the hypothalamus and anterior(front of the) pituitary with hormones from reproductive tissues and organs. When the reproductive hormone is required, the hypothalamus sends a hormone to the pituitary. This causes the release into the blood of a hormone (‘follicle-stimulating’) that promotes the formation of ova or sperm, and another hormone (‘luteinizing”) that stimulates ovulation in females and the synthesis of androgen in males.
Dec 5, 2019, 9:23 PM HYPOTHALAMUS (Regarding drastic difference in women taking ‘the pill’.) (Hypothesis: the female brain evolved to sustain moods in the care of children, and absent children the female brain does not mature, and in the absence of the reproductive cycle declines. Which is what we see in the data. So without competition boys infantilize and without children girls infantilize – and infantilizing causes behavior in humans similar to caged animals in zoos.) WHAT DOES THE HYPOTHALAMUS DO? The hypothalamus is a portion of the brain that contains a number of small nuclei (groups of neurons that work to calculate specialized functions). All vertebrate brains contain a hypothalamus. In humans, it is the size of an almond. The hypothalamus links the nervous system to the endocrine system via the pituitary gland and is responsible for the regulation of multiple metabolic processes and other functions of the autonomic nervous system (what you can’t control. By synthesizing and secreting certain neurohormones, called Releasing Hormones or Hypothalamic Hormones (messengers), that stimulate or inhibit the secretion of hormones from the pituitary gland, causing your body to react to real or imagined information by translating information for the pituitary gland. Using these messages, the hypothalamus controls body temperature, hunger, important aspects of parenting and attachment behaviors, thirst, fatigue, sleep, and circadian rhythms. The human male and female reproductive cycles are controlled by the interaction of hormones from the hypothalamus and anterior(front of the) pituitary with hormones from reproductive tissues and organs. When the reproductive hormone is required, the hypothalamus sends a hormone to the pituitary. This causes the release into the blood of a hormone (‘follicle-stimulating’) that promotes the formation of ova or sperm, and another hormone (‘luteinizing”) that stimulates ovulation in females and the synthesis of androgen in males.
Dec 5, 2019, 9:39 PM Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought — Quest kirkdurston.com “Unwin found that when strict prenuptial chastity was abandoned, absolute monogamy, deism, and rational thinking disappeared within three generations of the change in sexual freedom.” – Look around, how much rational thought do you see? We’ve been literally screwing our brains out. This looks like yet another inversion. If you look at this type of restraint as being top down and imposed (because that is your frame of reference) this “morality” looks prudish and authoritarian. But if it developed over time as what works best to sustain the most fitness for the greatest number of a group within a specific environment than this restraint is not the start point, being pushed on everyone for the purposes of control, but the end point being reinforced by norms for the survival of the group itself. Mistaking where we stand for the start point (or being convinced that this is the case by those wishing to exploit you) simply because we stand there may not be the most accurate frame to view anything from.
Dec 5, 2019, 9:39 PM Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought — Quest kirkdurston.com “Unwin found that when strict prenuptial chastity was abandoned, absolute monogamy, deism, and rational thinking disappeared within three generations of the change in sexual freedom.” – Look around, how much rational thought do you see? We’ve been literally screwing our brains out. This looks like yet another inversion. If you look at this type of restraint as being top down and imposed (because that is your frame of reference) this “morality” looks prudish and authoritarian. But if it developed over time as what works best to sustain the most fitness for the greatest number of a group within a specific environment than this restraint is not the start point, being pushed on everyone for the purposes of control, but the end point being reinforced by norms for the survival of the group itself. Mistaking where we stand for the start point (or being convinced that this is the case by those wishing to exploit you) simply because we stand there may not be the most accurate frame to view anything from.
Dec 6, 2019, 10:44 AM Curt: “Men evolved for politics and think in bell curves, women evolved for children and other mothers and think in flat lines. We call it NAXALT. Not All X Are Like That. Women can’t help saying it. Its a test of feminine cognition.” Woman: “You can’t make a generalization like that. Not all women are like that.” Curt: Blank stare. Looks at floor. Sips from coffee cup. Walks away. Fking hopeless
Dec 6, 2019, 10:44 AM Curt: “Men evolved for politics and think in bell curves, women evolved for children and other mothers and think in flat lines. We call it NAXALT. Not All X Are Like That. Women can’t help saying it. Its a test of feminine cognition.” Woman: “You can’t make a generalization like that. Not all women are like that.” Curt: Blank stare. Looks at floor. Sips from coffee cup. Walks away. Fking hopeless