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Birth control does promote bone health in women generally. Maintaining regular levels or progesterone and estrogen in the body is vital to bone health. Just as androgens like testosterone help bone health in men, estradiols do the same in women.

Let's make it a rule. Anyone posting about a female athlete's looks or weight has to accompany their comments with a selfie in running gear.

Runtothelight wrote:

Let's make it a rule. Anyone posting about a female athlete's looks or weight has to accompany their comments with a selfie in running gear.

That would be fine with me. So much pointless speculation on this subject. Everyone is different - you can have two women (or men, even) who are both skin-and-bones thin, where one is sick with a disorder and one just looks like that by nature/genetics/whatever. I was always skin-and-bones when I was running in HS/college and I ate like a monster. Now that I'm just a casual jogger, you can tell I still eat like a monster.

So she has now a spinal column injury and an Achilles injury? Knowing that she broke her foot in HS like 4 times and also had stress fractures, I don't think she should pursue a pro career in any sport, she just seems physically to fragile, mentally she sees tough which is admirable but given how easily she is injured a comfy desk job should be her future.

Even if she remains injured in the next half of her college career, she still has a better collegiate athletic record than most runners.

Doctor wrote:

Birth control does promote bone health in women generally. Maintaining regular levels or progesterone and estrogen in the body is vital to bone health. Just as androgens like testosterone help bone health in men, estradiols do the same in women.

Does it make a difference if they aren't having a period? If birth control makes stronger bones that's performance enhancing, yet elite athletes almost unanimously agree birth control is not helpful for performance.

Doctor wrote:

Does it make a difference if they aren't having a period? If birth control makes stronger bones that's performance enhancing, yet elite athletes almost unanimously agree birth control is not helpful for performance.

You are misinformed. The contraceptive pill provides a synthetic form of estrogen. It does not make STRONGER bones, it prevents bone loss/maintains bone density. Estrogen is naturally occurring in females and is a large factor in keeping BMD at a healthy level. If a female is not menstruating her estrogen levels will be at postmenopausal levels (i.e. very low).

Birth control is in no way performance enhancing. Estrogen is in no way performance enhancing-it often causes water retention, bloating, fat deposits at different times of a women's monthly cycle