Billionaire Elon Musk posted about the side effects of hormonal birth control pills on Friday, setting off a host of women to reply to the post with their own negative experiences from taking the contraceptive.
Hormonal contraceptive, a.k.a “the pill,” is extremely common among women and girls, and is sometimes even recommended for youths for something as benign as acne. However, side effects from the pill are hardly talked about, though some women in recent years have spoken out about ditching the pill following such side effects.
“Hormonal birth control makes you fat, doubles risk of depression & triples risk of suicide,” Musk posted to X. “This is the clear scientific consensus, but very few people seem to know it.”
The post has already been viewed more than 37 million times.
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