Progesterone doesn't only play an important role in the regulation of the female menstrual cycle; Progesterone is crucial to the body's balance of natural steroids like the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone. It also keeps other steroids in check; like corticosteroids and plays an important role in brain function as a neurosteroid.
None of the scientific terms above may sound scary at a glance, but hopefully, after reading this article you will have a better understanding of how putting synthetic hormones into the human body can cause serious chemical and hormonal imbalances.
Testosterone and Estrogen
Let's start with the sex hormones. Since the progesterone administered in the Depo shot is a synthetic hormone designed to mimic the natural hormone, it could cause an imbalance in other natural sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone. Excessive estrogen hormones in women cause a risk of abnormally over-sized breasts, premenstrual syndrome, obesity, postmenopausal syndrome, uterine fibroid, breast cysts, endometriosis, and breast cancer which is the most prominent diagnosed cancer among women of African descent. Too much testosterone can cause physical changes in women, like enlargement of the clitoris, deepening voice, and breast atrophy. Masculine muscle mass gain is another risk and if left untreated, can lead to increased risks of heart disease.
Corticosteroids
Corticosteroids control various physiological processes, like stress, immunity, inflammation, metabolism of carbohydrates and proteins, blood sugar levels, and behavior. An imbalance in this hormone could be very severe. Anxiety, depression, fluid retention, hypertension, osteoporosis, acne, weak immune system, excessive yeast infections, diabetes (which is predominant among blacks), and Cushing Syndrome. Cushing Syndrome is a very important side effect to mention; being as though a great number of the women who continuously use the Depo shot show one or more of its symptoms. Excessive weight gain in the torso area. Growth of fat pads along the collarbone, the back of the neck, and on the face. Fluid retention of the ankles (cankles) and wrists. Thinning and loss of head hair and abnormal facial hair growth. Dark discoloration of stretch marks on the neck and other areas. This one condition has so many categories and sub-categories I don't have enough time or space to name them all.
Neurosteroids
Neurosteroids are associated with the brain's memory process, behavior, and epileptic vulnerability, they regulate a person's response to stress, anxiety, and depression. Neurosteroids also play a key role in various sexually dimorphic behaviors and emotional responses. Simply put, an imbalance in this hormone can have serious effects on a woman's mental health, causing insomnia, impaired memory, and loss of sexual appetite. Including not being sexually attracted to men at all.
If a woman becomes pregnant shortly after coming off Depo-Provera or if while using the contraception (which has been reported happening by the way), the fetus male or female has a doubled risk of being born hermaphrodite according to the warnings label from Pharmacia and Upjohn Company.
Did You Know?
In 2013 the Israeli government admitted to allegations that Ethiopian immigrants were given Depo-Provera shots to prevent pregnancy. Many say, against their will and without being informed of the potential risks of side effects. Some said they were led to believe they were getting vaccines in a deliberate effort to reduce births in the Ethiopian immigrant community. The Ethiopian population has dropped nearly 50% in the past decade.
Depo-Provera was clinically tested on black Zimbabwean women in the 1970s. Once approved, the drug was used as a means to control the population. Women working on white-owned farms were forced into accepting Depo-Provera. In 1981, the drug was banned.
In 2005 citizens of Canada filed a $700 million class-action lawsuit against Pfizer a manufacturer of Depo-Provera. The women suing alleged they developed osteoporosis using the contraceptive.
In the U.S Depo-Provera was repeatedly denied for use by the FDA. Though it had been in use since 1969 it wasn't until 1992 that the FDA approved it for use in the U.S. Cervical cancer was found to be increased as high as 9-times in the first human studies recorded by the manufacturer and the National Cancer Institute.
The Point
Around the world, there is a plan in motion to reduce the growing populations of blacks and Hispanics alike; not only that but human beings are being used as lab-rats in experiments using manufactured hormones and live viruses before these medications are introduced to the FDA and other regulating organizations. The bodies of uninformed women are being morphed overnight, but the mainstream media wants to write it off to just plain old obesity or lack of physical activity.
There has been a spike in the number of obese and mentally ill black women within the past decade; could this all be linked to birth control? What problems have the children of these same women faced being exposed to these prenatal synthetic hormones as a fetus? Hopefully, this article is enough to encourage women to protect their temples more devotedly especially if they decide to have children in the future. Though the depo-shot has to be repeated every 3 months, the synthetic hormones may still be present along with any damages it caused.