Andrew Huberman· PhD
Oral contraceptives or pregnancy both provide substantial risk reduction for ovarian cancer because each prevents ovulation.
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Oral contraceptives or pregnancy both provide substantial risk reduction for ovarian cancer because each prevents ovulation.
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an immense drop in ovarian cancer ovarian cancer comes from the remodeling of the ovary so every time you have a follicle grow and it ruptures and it makes the Corpus ludum and then it heals up those are opportunities for those cancer cells to go away in that remodeling process and lead to ovarian cancer and because you're not ovulating on the pill your incidence of ovarian cancer drops dramatically
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