Green Tree

Hormonal birth control will not ‘regulate your cycles’, it prevents you from ovulating and only causes withdrawal bleeds, not real periods.

What you eat and drink, eating disorders, lack of sleep, lack of exercise, overexercising, and screen time all influence hormone production and therefore your cycle and your period too

I’m pro-informed choice, but I suspect that most users of hormonal birth control take it without having the kind of conversation that I’d like them to have with their healthcare provider, one in which the side effects and other options are discussed before the prescription pad is reached