>> Susan Bratton: Hi, I'm Susan Bratton.
Your trusted hot sex adviser.
And I'm here with my friend Dr. Jolene Brighten.
And Jolene and I are talking today about all of these things that happen to your vagina
when you take birth control and what you can do to reverse them.
So things like vaginal dryness, recurrent yeast infections, and the worst of all painful
sex.
So let's start with...
Do you want to start with vaginal dryness?
How you want to do it?
Top down?
What's the best way?
>> Dr. Jolene B: I think we can just dive on in.
They're all very much connected.
>> Susan Bratton: They are.
>> Dr. Jolene B: And it's something I think it's compartmentalized like "No, only young
girls get yeast infections and only old ladies they get vaginal dryness.
>> Susan Bratton: Old ladies get vaginal dryness.
Exactly.
>> Dr. Jolene B: And actually a lot of my patients who are on hormonal birth control
complain of vaginal dryness and one thing is, is how does the birth control pill or
any of these synthetic hormonal birth control options work.
>> Susan Bratton: And let's list what this synthetic hormonal birth control options are.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: So we've got the pill, we've got the patch, we've got the IUD.
We've got the implant.
We've got the shot.
And we've got the NuvaRing as well.
And so with all of those.
They are really working by stopping how your brain is talking to your ovaries.
And in doing that, it's shutting down your entire reproductive system.
Which sounds like a good idea if you don't want to have a baby, but it's not-
>> Susan Bratton: It doesn't even sound like a good idea if I don't want to have a baby.
Why would you want to shut down your entire reproductive system.
And don't miss our episode on the dirty dozen bad side effects of birth control because
it's not just your reproductive system.
Right?
>> Dr. Jolene B.: Yeah.
Its very-
>> Susan Bratton: Messing every aspect of your body.
But we'll get back to vaginal dryness here.
Keep going.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: So if you're taking a medication that is stopping how the brain and the ovaries
are communicating and stopping the ovaries from actually producing all of those wonderful
hormones that they're able to produce.
That's going to have impacts on the tissues that they specifically have to stimulate like
the vagina.
And so we see vaginal dryness is really common.
Now on top of that when we go into menopause or when you're on hormonal birth control.
You can still lean on your adrenal glands a bit and they'll kick out something called
DHEA which is a precursor to testosterone and estrogen.
So here's the deal though.
You may try to kick out some DHEA, the birth control.
I'm glad you said that episode.
You got to go watch some because it's messing with your adrenals.
But even if you can get any little bit of testosterone out, your liver is affected by
these hormonal contraceptives and it's causing it to kick out more sex hormone binding globulin.
Which is grabbing onto all of that testosterone.
And we often think about testosterone just being for orgasms.
I think that's a lot.
>> Susan Bratton: No, I think most people think testosterone is for dudes.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: That's true.
>> Susan Bratton: So you actually need testosterone to have an orgasm.
To have soft tissue in your vagina.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: And lubrication.
And so all lubrication can be lost.
And the other thing is that your doctor probably didn't tell you this.
They don't teach this in medical school.
But we go through a whole menstrual cycle.
There's this ebb and flow of it's really just this beautiful symphony of hormones.
And through all of that.
There's different times of the month where you're going to have more vaginal secretions,
more lubrication.
That tends to be testosterone starts to rise.
You feel like you're getting in the mood.
Now, the vaginal secretions start and it's all.
It's a whole mechanism mama nature put together to get a baby.
>> Susan Bratton: One of the videos that you can watch is with Nicole Harlow.
You probably know Nicole.
"Girl Meets Body" is her YouTube channel.
And she actually goes through, I call it the fertility finger test.
I named it for her where she, if you swipe your clean finger in your vagina every day
and you look at the vaginal secretions.
You can tell where you are in your ovulatory cycle.
And so if you want the specific details of what it looks this color or this is where
you are and what it looks like this.
This is where you are.
You can actually tell where you are in your cycle by the vaginal secretions.
But if you're suppressing the vaginal secretions with the pill or one of these synthetic hormonal
contraceptives.
Then you're not getting the data you need to know when you're ovulating.
When you're having all of these things and you're getting the dryness.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: And that's essentially-
>> Susan Bratton: They're tied together.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: Absolutely.
And that's, I mean, it really is all tied together with women because there's also your
mood, what your breast tissue look like and your basal body temperature.
There's even the moon cycle and their science to show that as well.
We are complex as ladies.
Which is why I love women's medicine.
That's why I do it because, I love my men too.
But I like to get into all of this.
So here's the deal with that though, is not while you're suppressing these hormones I
give you, go watch that video and look at what your vaginal secretions or like right
before your period come.
They're kind of tacky and that's essentially what you're like all the time.
Which is a super big bummer.
And then women, that's-
>> Susan Bratton: What you mean.
That's what you like all the time when you're on the pill.
Super Tacky of vaginal secretions.
So you never get that slipperiness from ovulation.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: And that's what breaks my heart is that leads so many women to come
to me and say, "Well what's wrong with me?"
There's nothing wrong with you.
You're not broken.
This is not about you.
This is about a drug, a pharmaceutical, that's altering that natural hormonal rhythm.
And so that's how a lot of women find themselves needing to use a lot of lubes and different
things.
I bet you got videos on lubes.
>> Susan Bratton: I do.
I only like natural organic lubes because if you wouldn't put it in your mouth.
You shouldn't put it in your vaginal canal because they are the same tube that's called
mucosal tissue.
This is mucosal tissue.
It's all the same.
So if you wouldn't eat it.
Don't use it on your Yoni.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: And I love that you say that.
And I will say I straight up disagree with doctors who were like, "It's just your skin."
"It's just your vagina."
>> Susan Bratton: No because with our skin's the largest organ in our body.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: And we apply hormones that way.
>> Susan Bratton: We take these toxins in from all those chemicals.
In all those nasty lubes.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: Absolutely.
And your ovaries are sitting right there.
It's not a good idea at all.
>> Susan Bratton: Keep it all natural.
Toxic free.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: But as women start to lean on lubes, if you're on hormonal contraceptives
and some of these lubes that are, they have little sugar elements in them that can actually
feed yeast and that will actually lead a lot of doctors to say, "No."
You just need to go out and get these synthetic lubes.
No, no, no.
You need to look at what this birth control is doing to your vaginal ecology and as you
just said, "The tube is connected all the way through."
So what grows in your gut grows in your vagina and vice versa.
We know birth control causes dysbiosis.
That is the good gut bugs.
They're imbalanced with the bad gut bugs.
And if that's happening.
Now here's what you got to know about yeast.
Yeast is not bad used to just opportunistic.
And if you give it the opportunity to grow it is going to do that.
And so we see yeast infections.
This is well documented and very, very common for women who are on hormonal contraceptives
and all of this can lead to painful sex.
And the other thing that's really concerning is that the younger your put on hormonal birth
control.
The more likely you are to have painful sex and specifically at the introitus the opening.
But it really can be anywhere.
And if you think about how sex works.
And we just have another video on that as well.
Where we talk about vagina parts is that when you get in the mood.
Your uterus actually moves back.
But if you don't have testosterone.
You don't have lubrication.
Your clitoris and all of your sexual tissue cannot become engorge.
That uterus may not move back and now if a penis abruptly meets the cervix, it is.
I think it's some of the worst pain in the world if you've ever experienced it.
And that again leads women.
I actually had a patient who came to me and her doctor told her that she should consider
a hysterectomy because she couldn't give her husband doggy style because it was too painful-
>> Susan Bratton: What?
>> Dr. Jolene B.: For her.
>> Susan Bratton: Oh men.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: Yes.
And she was.
This is what we get in women's medicine.
We get contraceptives, IVF and when you're done with the babies.
>> Susan Bratton: Right.
Exactly.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: But that was his solution to a 33 year old.
And I said, "Okay, well hold up."
You're on hormonal contraceptives.
When's the last time you had an orgasm?
And she's like, "I don't know.
Like maybe never"
>> Susan Bratton: Maybe never.
>> Dr. Jolene B.: Well when she was pregnant, when she was off of everything and she was
pregnant.
She had orgasms and she was like, "Doggy style actually was an issue."
I'm like, "Well that's a key in your history."
But she thought she was broken.
She thought that she couldn't be a good wife, a good woman.
It's a very sad story.
And her doctors only solution was like, "We'll remove the organ that's in the way."
No, there's natural physiology.
I actually am like, "Now you know."
I'm like, "I need to just send everyone over to you" and be like, "You need to go watch
you and your husband, you and your partner."
"You just sit down, watch what needs to happen because it's a good 20 minutes or more of
stimulation to actually get the female body."
And actually I will back it up and say, "There's the stimulation piece of when you're going
to have sex."
But for women are foreplay really happens throughout the day.
When you're taking care of the kids and you're doing the dishes and when you help us out
and we feel safe, we feel cared for and protected.
That's actually, that's really some of the secret sauce to foreplay.
Starting at like 24 to 48 hours in advance.
>> Susan Bratton: Definitely.
There's so many things that have to be right for you to enjoy and relax into your sexuality.
But the very first thing is to remove the roadblocks to any vaginal dryness, recurrent
yeast infections, painful sex.
All of these things can be fixed through getting good hormonal balance.
And bringing your body back into its natural equilibrium.
So if you're wondering, "How do I get off the pill or one of these hormonal birth control
contraceptive options."
I have a couple of pieces of advice for you.
One is, watch our video on non hormonal contraception so you can see what your options are getting
off birth control.
And then once you're ready to get off of the pill.
You can take Dr Brighton's birth control hormone reset program.
I'm going to put a link to it in the video below.
And that's going to help you get off the pill.
Get your body regulated again.
Get on non hormonal birth control.
Watch that video.
And then you'll be able to get to the next step.
Which is feeling more pleasure and sensation in your entire vulva.
And for that I also have a gift for you.
It's called expand her orgasm tonight.
Expanded Orgasm, is a clitoral stroking technique that is very light because your clitoris does
not need a lot of pressure to feel pleasure.
Especially if you're coming off of things like painful sex, vaginal dryness or other
vaginal infections.
Expanded Orgasm is a practice for partners.
You can do it to yourself or you can do it with your partner.
It gives you the time to get fully engorged and turned on and it gives you what I would
almost call some orgasmic training.
It helps you begin to take that moment of orgasm and stretch it out over time and it's
a certain touch technique in a certain way of orgasming.
That it will help you become more orgasmic and multi orgasmic in many, many ways.
So the three free pleasure reports are at the link below along with the birth control
hormone reset program from Dr Brighton.
They really work hand in hand to get you to what is your birthright.
Which is gorgeous pleasure and beautiful sensation.
Not in your Yoni.
But in your whole body and your whole life.
So I'm Susan Bratton, your trusted hot sex advisor here with Dr Jolene Brighten my amazing
friend who I know you just loved and we'll see you on the other side.
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