This is one of those articles, though well meaning, that carries MAJOR errors (2 really BIG ones!). The authors conflate and confuse both natural progesterone and natural estrogens with the deadlier & problematic synthetic versions (and this was written in 2010 — they definitely should have known better). Shame on them. (And no retraction o r correction was ever printed.)
Now you know when your doctor confuses the two (natural versus synthetic) why he or she does this. It is very confusing.
But the real point of this article is BCPs cause a marked decrease in libido. Ugh. How horrible?
