
bc pumping your body full of bioengineered hormones is definitely good for you😂. you raise your risk of having a stroke, blood clots, and heart problems. that’s why women can get orthostatic symptoms like POTS, there’s several articles talking about the relation to POTS, and other heart issues with BC. a lot of people eventually also experience issues with getting pregnant in the future, which leads to other options in order to have a kid. it also raises the risk of certain types of cancers.
birth control is a medication so it’ll have side effects, but the risk of any of this is extremely low for the average person. bc also helps DECREASE risk of cancer too, i think ovarian? but the fearmongering around ‘bioengineered hormones’ is kinda silly i won’t lie. all medication is bioengineered. that doesn’t inherently make something bad
i also think it’s important to point out that a lottt of women use birth control to manage their period symptoms. fearmongering and acting like bc is something uniquely awful when it’s just a medication that can have good and bad side effects only hurts women who could see great improvements in their health by using it. i personally went from being so dizzy i couldn’t stand from the blood loss to be able to start running again bc of birth control :D