On TikTok and Instagram, a chorus of young influencers are advising women in their age bracket to ditch their hormonal birth control pills, saying they cause a cavalcade of problems for physical and ...

Medically reviewed by Alyssa Dweck, MS, MD, FACOG Key Points When stopping birth control, your cycle may take time to return to its natural rhythm.Stress, body weight changes, or underlying health ...

These hormones also affect things like your menstrual cycle, mood, skin, and even hair growth. Once you stop taking birth control, your body starts adjusting to its natural hormone cycles again, which ...

You thought going off birth control would be the easy part. Spoiler alert: it’s not always that simple. If you’ve ever dealt with the emotional rollercoaster of starting birth control, you probably ...

Since the approval of the first birth control pill in the 1960s, millions of women have relied on hormonal contraceptives to prevent unintended pregnancies, regulate periods and manage other health ...

Last Wednesday, Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper dropped a solo episode where she shared that she decided to come off birth control to start trying for a baby. There was just one problem: shortly after ...

Posts urging women to stop using traditional oral contraceptives are exploding online, in part due to influencers promoting them with hashtags like #stopthepill, #hormonefree and #naturalbirthcontrol.