In the news women don’t need pill-bleeds came the headline “women do not need menstruation,” which is completely wrong.
It is true that women do not need the pill-bleed because the pill-bleed is not a period. But a woman do natural menstrual cycles are necessary, and here’s why.
Naturally ovulation Menstrual cycles are how women produce estrogen and progesterone, which are beneficial for overall health, not just for making a baby. According to Professor Jerilynn Prior, “regular menstrual cycle with consistent normal ovulation during [reproductive] year is prevent osteoporosis, breast cancer and heart disease.”
Tip: 👉 Birth control contraceptive drugs are not hormones and do not have the same benefits.
Just as testosterone is beneficial for the overall health of men, so are estrogen and progesterone beneficial for the overall health of women.
Saying that women don’t need ovulation except to make a baby is like saying that men don’t need testosterone except to make a baby!
This is the round and hormones that are beneficial, not the bleeding. Bleeding is simply an inevitable outcome of an ovulatory cycle because, in general, it is not possible to ovulate and then not have continuous bleeding (except in the case of pregnancy, hysterectomy, or a hormonal IUD.)
Natural cycles are possible with the hormonal IUD
The hormonal IUD (Mirena) is unique in that, unlike all other types of hormonal birth control, it does not prevent ovulation.
In other words, the hormonal IUD allows ovulatory cycling and the production of estrogen and progesterone; it just stops the bleeding. This is in stark contrast to the pill and Nuvaring, which suppress ovulatory cycling but induce withdrawal bleed.
On the pill, women bleed but do not ovulate.
With the hormonal IUD, women may ovulate but not bleed.
Do women need periods?
In summary, women do not need periods if a period is defined as a bleed. And women certainly don’t need the pill-bleed because they don’t menstruate.
woman do periods are required if a period is defined as a menstrual cycle because the regular ovulatory menstrual cycle is how women make hormones.
