Birth Control, For Men

[ rakaur on Sun Mar 30 at 02:01 PM // category: drugs, health, life ]

The pill consists of progestin and testosterone. The female birth control pill usually consists of progestin and estrogen. How did it take them half a decade to figure out that swapping the female hormone for the male hormone would work?

They make way more money than I do, too.

A birth-control pill for men is now a reality, according to an international consortium of physicians who revealed their formula for “safe, effective and reversible” hormonal contraception for males.

The preparation includes progestin, a key ingredient found in women’s birth-control pills, and the male sex hormone testosterone.

-- rakaur // 2008.03.30 @ 02:01 PM


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