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“And I think a lot of that is pharmaceutical influence. The oral contraceptive is two hormones. It's ethanyl estradiol and it's a progestin. So it's not the normal progesterone that your body makes, that your ovaries make and your adrenals make.”
“It is a synthetic form of progesterone. And it is the same progestin, similar, same class that was shown to be dangerous and provocative in the Women's Health Initiative. So I'm not a fan of progestins.”
“interaction with the oral combined oral contraceptive pills, depending on which drug they're using. In general, ethanol estradiol plus some progestin, depending on how androgenic the progestin is, it'll depend on how much the SHBG goes up. But you'll see in adolescent women or women who are in full adulthood that are taking combined oral contraceptives, their total”
“And that's only with oral. That's with oral, but like any sort of progestin that is synthetic will have negative feedback to some degree, all but much lesser so via a localized IUD releasing a levonodogestrel or something.”
“via the progestin and estrogen induced suppression through the DHEA. So like by that, I mean starting off with like a 70 total T, getting suppressed down to like, you know, 30 or something on your combined oral contraceptive, taking DHEA and getting back up to 70 while you're still on the combined oral contraceptive.”