Listen up, ladies: If you've got a knee injury, using birth-control pills may hinder your healing time. "Women have four to eight times more knee ligament injuries than men, even when playing the same sports," says Ross Hauser, MD, a rehabilitation specialist in Chicago. This is because men's bodies heal more quickly; testosterone encourages the production of tissue-rebuilding collagen. Estrogen, on the other hand, inhibits this process, so the excess estrogen from birth control may slow your body's ability to heal torn ligaments. Hauser's recommendation: Shelve the Pill during your rehab, and use another form of birth control.
Yet another example where better health doesn't result from artificial pills, potions, or lotions.
Nature need no help, just no interference.
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