**TMI Alert** While this article is mainly applicable to all females, it is also noteworthy to all you guys who are heterosexual and have a girlfriend, so suck it up and read on.  Just know that you’ve been warned!**

Recently, I was perusing Mark’s Daily Apple and found an amusing post on 10 Dumbest Drugs Ever Invented and was giggling at the absurd drugs listed until I saw in bold print the birth control pill I was take was listed as #6.  After a couple of hours of research, it hit me like a pimp’s b-slap:  I have spent the past 12 months eating Paleo and the 6 months before that eating clean Zone all in an effort to achieve a hormonal balance with (insulin and glucogon).  All the while, I’ve been ingesting synthetic hormones.  *Sigh*

A quick google search on Paleo and Birth Control Pills led me to Robb Wolf’s recent Paleo Episode where he talks about the negative effects of the BCP.  Besides the obvious hormonal imbalances, he talks about the common problem that his female BCP taking CrossFitters have:  those pesky last 10 pounds.  He goes on to say that when they went off the pill, they shed those pounds very quickly.  The side effect?  Some of them also got very pregnant.

Now, I’m not at all advocating unplanned pregnancies.  Quite the opposite.  But it was absolutely an awakening for me to take responsibility for my medical health and do my due diligence in researching my options. All I wanted to do was share the epiphany I had that should have been obvious to me from the start.

Thus begins a search that I should have started long ago: The Quest for the Primal/Paleo Doctor. Post coming coon.

WOD 01.08.10

Power Cleans Skill Work
3×10 reps (60%) not for time

AMRAP 9
5 OHS (Fran wt)
5 Ring Rows
5 Thrusters

c/o snatch balance w/minimal weight