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The Crazy Complicated Relationship Between Birth Control and Your Health and Fitness!
How does the birth control pill affect your weight, exercise, and nutrition?
There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about the pill, and a good number of women are taking it, but not knowing how it affects their bodies.
We’ll talk about that here.
What we won’t talk about is whether you should use the pill. I’m a fitness professional. I am not a licensed doctor or a pharmacist. If you want to know whether you should use it, ask a doctor or pharmacist.
Let us talk about birth control pills and their functions.
Before we start and word to the wise: This will be a very long article!
Reasons to Use Birth Control
The original reason for oral contraceptives (birth control pills) was to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The way it did that is by “tricking” the body into thinking it’s already pregnant, by raising progesterone levels.
Then, researchers saw that for some women, it helped regulate their periods. For others, it improved skin quality, etc.
Currently, a number of women are using the birth control pill for reasons other than contraception.
