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

Dr Mike seems like he'd be a great professor

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

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: 😁

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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 ❤

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

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!

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.

3 homebirths! We had 2 midwives and all the equipment we would need in case of an emergency and had all my information at the local hospital and a bag packed in case of an emergency. It was so peaceful, lots of laughs, lots of hugs and support from my sisters mother, children and husband. I got to relax in my own space after and it was beautiful! My sister has had all natural births in the hospital and she found a doctor she’s loves (6 kids!) and she’s loved her births. To each their own!

Absolutely brilliant. I read the title “debunks birth control” and i thought, here we go again with some “social media doctor” trying to push out some fake information to become relevant, and i was reluctant to listen. However I started watching and I cannot fault him in the slightest, an amazing, passionate and straight to the point man with no ulterior motive whatsoever. He uses research and facts in the most logical way, considering the population and environment in order to deliver the most important information.
Coming from a country (South Africa), working in the public healthcare sector with limited resources and overpopulated hospitals, this is exactly how we are taught to provide medical advice and information. No strong views or opinions and respecting the patients choices, and views on treatment is the most holistic approach and there is a lot to be said for it with the outcomes of treatment. He is so self aware and gives appropriate advice and reasons with not coming off too strongly and as if he knows better. This is the doctor I strive to be and these are the doctors the really make a difference in the world. WOW i am so pleasantly surprised.

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.

I love how Matt is clearly fangirling over Mike and then Abby is totally cool 😂❤️

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.