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EMMA ROSS

Now we understand that things like strength, power, endurance are not impacted by the hormonal fluctuations across a natural menstrual cycle. And actually largely, the same can be said for women who are using hormonal contraception. Their strength and their power isn't impacted by using hormonal contraception.

With one exception, though that there is some well controlled research which shows that aerobic endurance measured by VO2 max can be decreased in those women using the pill. And the reason that was great research is because it used women as their own controls, they had women who weren't using the pill and they measured their VO2 max.

And then those women started taking the pill and they found that their aerobic endurance was decreased by up to 11%. And I think the important thing to remember here is that using hormonal contraception is a very individual choice. And what's important is to find the right solution and the right strategy that suits you.