Won't birth control (pill) be ineffective in ~500 years?

[PlasmaBomb]

Ownage of the year isn't done anymore, is it?

Maybe it's time it came back, it is December after all 🙂

 

[PlasmaBomb]

This thread is so funny... not in a good way 🙁

We have had 3, maybe 4 generations since its invention. No such evidence exists yet. In ~50 years evidence for it might actually come out. People aren't bacterium with 20minute life cycles.

Someone needs to look up the length of human generations... As of 2008, the average generation length in the United States was 25 years.

 

[dennilfloss]

OP,

Although people refers commonly to The Pill, there are various forms of oral/patch contraceptives, controlling/using different hormones and mechanisms, and the pharmaceutical industry has a history of constant research in the domain for it is very lucrative. If women were to become resistant to all current forms of oral contraceptives, I'm confident that some replacement would be found within the next 500 years.

Heck, 500 years hence there will probably be a nanobot spray women can use to hunt and kill your sperm cells.

And let's not ignore male oral contraceptive developments.

 

[OverVolt]

This thread is so funny... not in a good way 🙁



Someone needs to look up the length of human generations... As of 2008, the average generation length in the United States was 25 years.

Eh close enough by my standards 😛

 

[PlasmaBomb]

 

[PlasmaBomb]

No it isn't, unless you consider FDA warnings a myth.

I will see your FDA and raise you a letter - FSRH guidelines -

In line with the World Health Organization (WHO) and U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, the CEU no longer advises that additional precautions are required when using combined hormonal contraception (CHC) with antibiotics that are not enzyme inducers. Minor changes have been made to recommendations on concomitant use of enzyme-inducing rifamycins (such as rifabutin and rifampicin) and CHC.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Even if we take your argument at face value there is a major problem. The birth control pill is not a single formula. There are a number of different ones out there that work differently. Not only that, but we are continually finding new methods. The Pill of today is not like The Pill of our parents generation, and will not be anything like the Pill of 500 years from now.

 

[Nox51]

This has got to be a troll with the wiki links 😛

The receptor could evolve mutations that ignore the effects of the drug.

I thought that was interesting considering the obesity trends. Maybe people are already down regulating estrogen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrogen_receptor#Signal_transduction

Anything along that pathway to make it less sensitive would do.

Not trolling. The OCP's main active ingredient is progesterone not oestrogen. If the receptor(s) does indeed become insensitive to progesterone you'd have big problems with hormonal balance and reproduction. One of them would be issues with the uterus lining preparing for implantation and support of the fertilised egg. I'd hazard a guess that there would be difficulties with implantation and pregnancy in that case. Roughly speaking, self selection out.

I couldn't find something on progesterone resistance or insensitivity unrelated to endometriosis on a quick search. There is androgen insensitivity syndrome which is not the same thing but related. They hormones share production pathways anyway.

Someone commenting on the formulation of the OCP, as far as I know, The only differences are the type of progesterone and dosage used as well as type and dosage, if any, of oestrogen present. No major changes there.

 

[randomrogue]

So...does anyone feel like the stupidest people they have ever "met" in their entire lives are on this forum? I mean the level of stupid is reaching epic proportions.

OP do you have a 3rd grade education? The level of ownage in this thread is worthy of a prize. You need to just sit down, shut up, and try to educate yourself before going out in "public" again.

 

[UberNeuman]

"If a five hundred year old boner you have, seek a doctor you must...."

 

[OverVolt]

So...does anyone feel like the stupidest people they have ever "met" in their entire lives are on this forum? I mean the level of stupid is reaching epic proportions.

OP do you have a 3rd grade education? The level of ownage in this thread is worthy of a prize. You need to just sit down, shut up, and try to educate yourself before going out in "public" again.

Yes

 

[Meghan54]

I used to live in Summit County, CO and people there are VERY active biking, hiking, running.

There was this older guy and, I can't attest to the truth of this but this is what I heard... when doctors were doing some work on his heart, they found that his heart had somehow like... grown additional veins or found an alternate route to avoid a blockage.

Sounds really hard to believe but they said he was in amazing shape so... who knows?

It's the arteries that grew anew, not veins, and the phenomenon is called collateral circulation. (I'm an RN that spent over a decade in open heart/cardiovascular surgery recovery.)

 

[PlasmaBomb]

It's the arteries that grew anew, not veins, and the phenomenon is called collateral circulation. (I'm an RN that spent over a decade in open heart/cardiovascular surgery recovery.)

Cool, I always thought that it was just angiogenesis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiogenesis

 

[Geosurface]

It's the arteries that grew anew, not veins, and the phenomenon is called collateral circulation. (I'm an RN that spent over a decade in open heart/cardiovascular surgery recovery.)

Oh okay cool thanks for shedding some light on it!

 

[natto fire]

No it isn't, unless you consider FDA warnings a myth.

Maybe not so much a myth as a joke. You can throw the FCC and EPA in there too.

 

[ichy]

Maybe not so much a myth as a joke. You can throw the FCC and EPA in there too.

There's no evidence that most antibiotics interfere with the pill, which is what a lot of people seem to believe. A few kinds of antibiotics do but it's not that common.

 

[ichy]

The Pill of today is not like The Pill of our parents generation, and will not be anything like the Pill of 500 years from now.

And the pill really isn't the best method of contraception out there anymore.

 

[natto fire]

There's no evidence that most antibiotics interfere with the pill, which is what a lot of people seem to believe. A few kinds of antibiotics do but it's not that common.

Hence my argument that statements made by those government agencies is a joke. It largely depends on who has them in their pocket at the time statements and policy are made, with a dollop of "for the American people" so it doesn't look too obvious.