Instead, the pill
provides synthetic estrogen and progestin, which means you still get your periods regularly as part of a withdrawal bleed, not to be mistaken for a «real» period.
Not exact matches
Birth control pills
provide you a steady dose of ethinyl estradiol, a
synthetic version of
estrogen four times higher than your body would naturally produce.
Conventional
synthetic estrogen and progestin therapy caused these side effects and «Bioidentical hormones» (which are identical to natural hormones present in the body) are therefore touted as
providing the same benefits without side effects.