The option is getting closer.
New approaches to birth control for men have been in the pipeline — and getting stuck there — for decades. Finally, a novel option seems to be making its way through. A hormonal birth control gel for men is in its fourth year of a worldwide clinical trial led by UC Davis Health and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As strange as it might sound, the men participating in the trial rub the gel on their shoulder blades once a day to prevent pregnancy. The gel contains the progestin Nesterone (segesterone acetate) to prevent sperm production and testosterone to replace the testosterone lost with the sperm. Of the men participating in the clinical trial, 86% have reached the desired low level of sperm production within 15 weeks.
Birth Control Side Effects
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