Estrogens tell the body's tissues to 'swell and divide'. It's a stress hormone, for both women and men.

Advocates for hormonal birth control have an unstated rule: 'do not talk about the problems of hormonal birth control'.

It's farcical that preteen and teenage girls are commonly put on birth control by their doctor becuase they're having very difficult periods, not because they don't want to get knocked up by their 7th-grade classmate.

Lots of women I know trialed and discontinued birth control. I've found lots of reports from women who didn't realize how adversely they'd been affected by these pills, until they discontinued after a decade+ had passed...