Dr. Mike debunks birth control, home births, and medical misinformation | Ep. 55

Thank you for such a fun conversation AND allowing evidence based info to get prime time attention ❤❤ Wishing you guys the best!!

he’s literally amazing at talking. looking at both matt and abby all the time. confident but humble. i love it.

Matt took this as a personal consultation from dr.mike 😂 loved this episode

I absolutely love that Dr. Mike didn’t sit there and simply dog on homebirthers but presented the facts and research and left it at that. Exactly how we should be discussing these issues.

Matt and Abby in this pod: 😮😮 Dr Mike in this pod: 😁

Dr Mike seems like he'd be a great professor

It’s very obvious Dr. Mike is attractive, but man…his passion and knowledge about medicine and the medical field in general is SO ATTRACTIVE!!! Loved this episode so much ♥️

“I never recommend something that’s going to do more harm than good” - a doctor that is pro patients as individuals, pro facts, pro information is the best and I wish there were more who cared like him!

So many women I know are frustrated because they are so emotionally/physically/and mentally different when on hormonal birth control. so so many. That is the truth.

We appreciate your efforts getting Dr Mike on your podcast! Thank you Matt and Abby 💗

8:35 - in my case, my doctor was the one confidently offering birth control options while i was asking questions about potential risks, but my questions were brushed off with the reasoning that the side effects were not likely. when i pressed further, i was told i could look them up if i was really that concerned. the reason i was even offered birth control in the first place was just because my period was heavy. i wasn’t okay with the potential risks, though, so i went back and asked more questions. i was finally offered blood work (these appointments/ phone calls happened over a year), and it turned out that i had a blood disorder. i felt like my questions and concerns weren’t taken seriously from the beginning.

Dude I love this guy so much. He’s so realistic about overall health. I also like that he’s conscience of not scaring people with food and not this is “bad” this is “good” such a better way of looking at things.

Dr. Mike is such an eloquent speaker, I feel like I could understand any topic in the universe if he was the one explaining it.

I have my bachelors & Masters degrees in public health and we talk all the time about medical bias, research trials, evidence based practices, etc. and hearing Dr. Mike speak on these things accurately and rationally was so refreshing.

I’ve learned so much from Dr Mike over the years. He’s so good at laying down the facts and putting things into perspective. I always feel smarter after listening to him! Thanks Matt & Abby

Had two horrible hospital births and then two life changing beautiful home births with beautiful healthy babies. My homebirths changed me as a person. It’s not for everyone, but absolutely most favourite moments of my life ❤

i SWEAR they always have the best guests on the show!!

I had 2 homebirths, in the UK, and cannot praise the experience more! Midwife-led care is the default here and if I'd needed to transfer to hospital, my midwife would have been able to continue caring for me in hospital. I had 2 fully-trained midwives present at each birth and I felt totally confident that they had everything under control and would transfer me to hospital if the need arose (which thankfully it didn't). I absolutely loved my home births. Totally relaxed, in my own space, two midwives all to myself - - honestly, it felt like the VIP option!

My daughter was a home birth. My midwife interviewed me to assess the risks of my pregnancy (which were low). I had to sign a contract agreeing to an emergency plan (that I’d go to the hospital in an ambulance if there were complications even if I wanted to protest), or a non emergency plan (that if I decided at any point that I wanted other interventions or different type of things around me, I could go). I really loved my labor and delivery experience at home. My daughter was posterior but didn’t need any interventions. I’m glad that women have options, I hope every woman gets the chance to have a care team that helps her figure out what her best options are. My best friend was a high risk pregnancy and would have been denied for a home birth, which more women need to be aware of. Just because you want to doesn’t mean you should.

I could listen to this guy talk for hours. In the age of social media, where everyone seems like they're trying to move away from nuance, its so refreshing to hear nuanced takes instead of "good" or "bad" categories. The world IS nuanced.