Dr. Casey Means about Birth control pills

"So you've got these medications that are literally shutting down the hormones in the female body that create this cyclical life giving nature of women. We basically told women, these hormones don't matter. Your ability to create the most miracle of any miracles, which is create life, just shut it down. There's no impacts. That's crazy to me. And as I've woken up from this, I'm realized like your cycle and having these hormonal cycles is part and parcel with our health in every possible way and also with the miracle of creating life. And so for years, you just lose the biofeedback of what's happening with your cycle. It is one of the key barometers of female health. How is your cycle doing? Is it regular? Is it heavy? And we just shut it down and say there's no repercussions for that, which I think gets to a larger issue, which is a disrespect of life, right? It's a disrespect of things that create life. And I think about, you've got the pill and it just goes hand in hand with the rise.
And this is gonna seem a little far out there, but like it goes rise and rhyme with the hand of industrial agriculture. The spraying of these pesticides, the things that give life in this world, which are women and soil, we have tried to dominate and shut down the cycles. We have lost respect for life, which again, gets to the spiritual crisis. Keep going, keep going. I love this. And I think- You are speaking truth right now. I can- For the sake of efficiency, right? For this delusion of short-term gains, for yields, for profit. But what we need to realize is that we live in an interdependent ecosystem that has to be harmonious, not dominated, which means gentler. And so by taking a hammer to women's hormones, taking a hammer to pests, what we've done is we've essentially, we are destroying the things that give us life in this country. And that is why, that is, I think, part of the root cause of why things feel so dark right now, because it's bigger than all of this. We are actually turning our back on life."