Um What are your concerns ? What do you like about oral contraceptives ? What do you dislike about them ?
So , oral contra contraceptives help with reducing ovulation and reducing risk . We know that if you take the oral contraceptive for about five years , it reduces your risk of ovarian cancer by 50% . And that's significant because we're so poor at diagnosing ovarian cancer early .
That's very helpful . And it makes me wonder whether or not if on the one hand , oral contraceptives are protective in women . It's ovarian cancer , but then they have these other issues .
Now that usually convinces most people to converse the elevation in sex hormone binding globulin does not seem to go away when you come off the birth control pill . To me , that is the biggest problem with prescribing oral contraceptives .
So there's something about this idea of incessant ovulation that is not good for the female body . So if you look at , for instance , women who are nuns who uh don't take oral contraceptives and they have a period every single month of their reproductive lives , they have a greater risk of ovarian cancer . So if you look , then at women who have uh several babies and they've got a period of time when they're pregnant that they're not ovulating and then they breastfeed for some period of time , they have a lower risk of ovarian cancer .
