Birth control pills are a high-dose form of hormone therapy that suppresses ovarian function and adds synthetic estrogen and progestin, but not testosterone.

“How does birth control work? By the way, birth control is highdosese hormone therapy. We love hormone therapy and birth control, but as soon as you become menopause, everybody's afraid of hormone therapy. It makes no sense. So birth control is high dose, I would argue, you know, sort of the hormone therapy we're talking about in the WHI that is more synthetic that has side effects that have issues like that. So birth control turns off your ovaries and it adds back ethinal estradile and a synthetic progesterine. It doesn't add back testosterone.”