New Male Birth Control Pill Effectively Prevents Pregnancy Without Side Effects
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Re: New Male Birth Control Pill Effectively Prevents Pregnancy Without Side Effects
#2I feel like there's a male birth control on the horizon every year for the last ten years. This one hasn't hit human trials yet so no point getting excited.
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#3(in mice)
Re: New Male Birth Control Pill Effectively Prevents Pregnancy Without Side Effects
#4In Western countries and in Asia, fertility rates are pretty (edit: low) these days. I fear they would collapse with the introduction of a male fertility pill.
In some sense, maybe that's not bad. The world is probably overpopulated. But if fertility drops too fast it creates real demographics problems in that few young people need to support many old people.
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#5What happens to YCT529 when it's used up or if more than is used up in the body is taken? Is excess urinated out? What impact does that have on the environment?
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#6(in mice)
Are we mice or are we men?
Re: New Male Birth Control Pill Effectively Prevents Pregnancy Without Side Effects
#7Ummm, if it’s not 100% effective…
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#8(in mice)
This should have been in the title, it’s such an important part of the results that it seems disingenuous to not include it.
Re: New Male Birth Control Pill Effectively Prevents Pregnancy Without Side Effects
#9I feel like there's a male birth control on the horizon every year for the last ten years. This one hasn't hit human trials yet so no point getting excited.
I've got the same feelings but it seems a bit more promising than others, and least here is some poor mice the trials conducted on
Re: New Male Birth Control Pill Effectively Prevents Pregnancy Without Side Effects
#10I feel like there's a male birth control on the horizon every year for the last ten years. This one hasn't hit human trials yet so no point getting excited.
There is Trestolone which is studied and shown to be very effective (patients had zero sperm in their ejaculate after several months of administering the compound), but there are hormonal side effects similar to testosterone, which kind of explains why it's pretty much only used in the bodybuilding community.
The pill in the article is a non-hormonal one, which is interesting