A 24 Pack of Birth Control Is More Effective Than The Regular 21 Pack

According to a recent study women taking a 24-day regimen of oral contraceptives leads to fewer cases of unexpected pregnancy.

With many women now taking birth control into their hands oral contraceptives have become a very popular way to prevent pregnancy. However, new data suggests that the normal 21 pack of oral contraceptives isn't as effective as the newer 24 pack (There are also some women who take the oral contraceptive for 28 days or longer to prevent or severely limit menstration) . The 21 pack of oral contraceptive is still efficient, in fact most range from having a failure rating of only 1-2%. Although 1-2% doesn't sound bad, the 24 pack of oral contraceptives have a failure rating of just under 1%. Sometimes just that little bit extra is what makes the real difference.

Why do three days more make a difference? Dr. Jüergen Dinger of the Center for Epidemiology and Health Research in Berlin explains that the success of a 24-day regimen "can be explained by three days of additional oral contraceptive exposure, but also by the long half-life of drospirenone, which, at 30 hours, is much longer than most of the other progesterones." For those of you that don't understand what the good doctor said let me give it a shot. Having a 24 -day regimen increases the amount of time your body is continuously receiving the contraceptive. Also the drospirenone, which is one ingredient that helps prevent birth control, stays in your body longer and breaks down slower than other progesterones. Hope that helps a bit.

Whether or not your choose the 24 pack oral contraceptive is up to you, it's your body and your choice. This is just to give some people the information so they can decide if the specific risks of birth control are worth it.


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Can progesterone help treat menopause?

Progesterone hormone therapy for menopause helps balance the effects of estrogen, as well as helping with hot flushes, endometriosis, and fibroids. Progesterone cream helps with estrogen dominance, but it does not balance synthetic estrogen. It is however, excellent for controlling excessive bleeding, PMS symptoms, hot flushes, and strengthening bones.

Progesterone is given with estrogen because it lowers the risk of uterine cancer. Estrogen on it's own increases this risk. The exception to this is low dose estrogen hormone replacement therapy.

You can find both natural and synthetic forms of progesterone. The synthetic forms have more side effects, such as weight gain, depression, breast tenderness, fluid retention, migraines, lower sexual desire, as well as increasing the risk of coronary heart vasospasm. According to many doctors, when used in amounts no greater than what the body normally takes, there are no known natural progesterone side effects or no natural progesterone cream side effects.

Taking natural progesterone can help you eliminate premenopause and menopausal symptoms or correct a hormone imbalance or deficiency that you may be experiencing.

Natural progesterone is identically the same hormone as found in the body, but is produced by a scientific process from the extract of the Mexican wild yam. Also, natural progesterone is bio-identical which means that it is the same as the body makes, which makes it more effective and with greater protective benefits.

Without progesterone, women could not have periods every month, and they could not bring new life into the world. One of its functions is to balance the actions of estrogen, a second hormone found in the body. Also, progesterone will not work without at least some estrogen to prime its receptors.

The cream is not as strong as the progesterone used in oral hormone replacement therapy so it should never be used as a substitute. It does not counteract the effect of estrogen on the uterus, whereas progesterone does.

Taking estrogen without progesterone therapy to balance the hormonal cycle could cause over stimulation of the endometrium tissue lining the uterus. This was found to lead to uncontrolled tissue growth, known as hyperplasia, which develops into endometrial cancer. Progestin (but not progesterone cream) can counteract this risk.

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