How do Birth Control Pills Work

Oral contraceptives or birth control pills are used by millions of women worldwide as a safe and effective way to prevent pregnancy. There are many oral contraceptives on the market, each of them marketed as the best and the safest, so it can become a little confusing.

To help select the best birth control pills, you need to understand what they are and how birth control pills actually work.

Generally speaking, birth control pills are small tablets that you need to swallow daily. As a norm, these pills contain the female hormones progestin and estrogen. These are the female hormones that are naturally produced by a woman’s ovaries. However, the pills contain hormones that are artificially manufactured in a laboratory. This is where some complications begin to occur. In a woman’s body, estrogen levels rise and help in the making of the uterus lining thick and in readiness for a fertilized egg. When the estrogen level peaks, an egg is then released. After the egg is released, progestin, another female hormone, begins to rise up and prepare the body to receive the fertilized egg. If conception fails to happen, the levels of these hormones drop and menstruation happens.

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