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Important information for women to know❗️ The oral contraceptive pill doesn’t balance or fix your hormones, it actually switches off your natural hormonal communication, shutting down the conversation between your brain (HPO axis) & your ovaries so you don’t ovulate. And the “period” you get on the pill isn’t a real period, it’s a withdrawal bleed from synthetic hormones. Ovulation isn’t just for fertility. It’s how women produce the estrogen, progesterone & testosterone that support balanced mo