. No successful hormonal birth control for men has yet been developed. Why might
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. No successful hormonal birth control for men has yet been developed. Why might hormonal birth control for men be more difficult than hormonal birth control for women? Recent efforts at hormonal birth control for men have included supplemental testosterone as part of the formulation. Why might this be helpful? . No successful hormonal birth control for men has yet been developed. Why might hormonal birth control for men be more difficult than hormonal birth control for women? Recent efforts at hormonal birth control for men have included supplemental testosterone as part of the formulation. Why might this be helpful?Explanation / Answer
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Men produce quite a lot of sperms (approx. 1000/second) thereby making it difficult to target. Use of hormones requires really very high doses and thus may have side effects. Recent studies have shown the use of testosterone in male control pills that can suppress pituitary gonadotropins luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone. low levels of these hormones does not allow endogenous testosterone production thus sperm does not mature. Therefore sperm production is affected by targeting sperm maturation and thus lead to reversible infertility in men.
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