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Your Contraception Could Be Giving You This Extra Benefit
- JWB Post
- August 12, 2016
Birth control pills are one of the biggest reason why the world has not exploded from over-population. Though, we are on the brink of it. *wink*
So yeah, we all know what are the obvious reason for taking birth-control pills. But, did you know that it also helps to prevent some forms of cancer?
Heck, did you know that a new study shows how birth-control pills also help to increase Vitamin-D levels in our bodies?
“It’s a very complicated metabolic pathway, and [oestrogen] may be acting at any point on that pathway,” explains Quaker Harmon, MD, Ph.D., lead author on the study. “If [oestrogen] enhances production in the skin, you would have more of the early forms of vitamin D, and if it increases how long the vitamin D stays around in the serum or decreases how quickly it’s cleared from your serum, that would also increase your levels.”
Though, it can prove harmful for women who have been taking birth control and want to become pregnant. Since they’d be getting Vitamin D from their contraception, the levels might dangerously drop if they suddenly discontinue the intake.
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