Today no one needs to be convinced that a child should be desired for both parents. However, contraception is still the prerogative of the weaker sex. Unfortunately, the promise of pharmacists to release birth control pills for men has not yet been realized. However, if you believe the publications in the press, this grand event should be expected from day to day. In any case, more detailed information on this issue will not hurt the reader.
First, let's try to figure out what the action of such drugs is based on.
Almost all birth control pills for men work as an inhibitor that suppresses sperm activity. Due to this effect, for a short period of time the possibility of fertilization of the egg is completely excluded. The authors of the discovery assure that birth control pills for men are completely safe and will not affect fertility.
The substance, called by scientists JQ1, can drastically inhibit the production of sperm, so the tablets will not need to be drunk daily, as is the case with drugs intended for women.
Note that birth control for men is a long-awaited goal of scientists in many countries. However, this drug owes its pure birth to chance. American pharmacists were looking for a cure for cancer, but clinical trials revealed slightly different properties in the invented substance. Experiments on rodents showed that the synthesized drug is able to suppress their reproductive function.
In parallel, research in this area was carried out by two pharmaceutical companies from Europe: Schering (Germany) and Akzo Nobel (Holland). However, scientists from Israel, Moldova, Great Britain and many other countries also contributed to the development.
Hormonal drugs for the fair sex were invented more than half a century ago, but birth control pills for men turned out to be much more difficult to create. The female body produces only one egg during the entire 28-day ovulation cycle. The male “shoots” up to a thousand sperm in just a minute. However, scientists still managed to synthesize drugs that are guaranteed to suppress their activity.
According to doctors, birth control pills for men will not completely replace female drugs, which are quite popular today. But they will be useful to those couples in which the lady for health reasons is not able to use contraceptives.
Most modern women are willing to share responsibility for planning childbirth with a man. They rightly believe that both should decide which birth control pills are better to take and to whom. However, about 85% of the ladies claim that they do not rely too much on male punctuality.
Israeli scientists are already developing non-hormonal pills that need to be taken quite rarely - only 4 times a year. This drug reduces the production of protein, which is necessary for fertilization of the egg. After its cancellation, reproductive function is fully restored. But this does not happen right away. The control group of male chimpanzees took about four months. Only after such a long period, the ability to reproduce was restored.
Opinion polls in the United States showed that 70% of men are willing to take non-hormonal birth control pills. However, psychologists are confident that the stronger sex is somewhat cunning, giving an affirmative answer. Firstly, men, especially young ones, do not like any pharmacological agents too much. Even they take vitamins and dietary supplements not too willingly. Also,
for most men, fertility and sexual power are very close concepts.