Birth Control Pill
Oral contraceptive containing synthetic estrogen and progestin
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How Birth Control Pill compares
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female testosterone hormone therapy
Rachel says the pill can lower testosterone as a side effect, which may cause low libido and pain with sex in some people.
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Rachel says the pill can lower testosterone as a side effect, which may cause low libido and pain with sex in some people.
"I have another chapter in Sextinction that talks about biological influences. So things like the birth control pill, potentially low testosterone, environmental toxins that may also be affecting us on a level that we're not fully aware o..."
Discussed alongside low testosterone and environmental toxins as biological factors contributing to the sex decline
"When you take a combined birth control pill, it has a fake amount of estrogen and a fake amount of progestin in it, so high that it tricks your body into not ovulating. Birth control is wonderful, but there are side effects to birth cont..."
Compared to HRT — both involve synthetic hormone administration; different forms of birth control may lower testosterone less
What creators say
"I have another chapter in Sextinction that talks about biological influences. So things like the birth control pill, potentially low testosterone, environmental toxins that may also be affecting us on a level that we're not fully aware of. Young w..."
More from Debra Soh →"When you take a combined birth control pill, it has a fake amount of estrogen and a fake amount of progestin in it, so high that it tricks your body into not ovulating. Birth control is wonderful, but there are side effects to birth control just l..."
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"The birth control pill is a combination of synthetic estrogen, ethinyl estradiol, and a type of progesterone or a progestogen. These work by telling the brain, essentially tricking it so the brain doesn't send out FSH or LH."
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