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The Pill may interfere with muscle-building workouts, study finds
In this article about women taking birth control pills they found that the women who were not taking birth control pills gained 60 percent more muscle mass after a 10-week weight training program than those who were. The research included 73 healthy women between 18 and 31 who completed a whole-body exercise training program with bout half of them taking the pill and half not. They were asked to eat plenty of good, more then the recommended daily intake, and at the end of 10 weeks with exercising 3 times a week, the women who were not taking birth control had built significantly more lean muscle. Blood samples also proved that the women on the pill have lower levels of muscle-building hormones.
Very interesting article i thought... in regards to the health field so many people want women to get on birth control and help prevent abortions or young mothers, but then this study comes out in regards to how much muscle a women can even get while on birth control. It was just about the oral birth control though... nothing was said about other types of contraceptives.
In this article about women taking birth control pills they found that the women who were not taking birth control pills gained 60 percent more muscle mass after a 10-week weight training program than those who were. The research included 73 healthy women between 18 and 31 who completed a whole-body exercise training program with bout half of them taking the pill and half not. They were asked to eat plenty of good, more then the recommended daily intake, and at the end of 10 weeks with exercising 3 times a week, the women who were not taking birth control had built significantly more lean muscle. Blood samples also proved that the women on the pill have lower levels of muscle-building hormones.
Very interesting article i thought... in regards to the health field so many people want women to get on birth control and help prevent abortions or young mothers, but then this study comes out in regards to how much muscle a women can even get while on birth control. It was just about the oral birth control though... nothing was said about other types of contraceptives.
