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CAN PEPTIDES
GET YOU PREGNANT?
Indirectly: yes.
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▸ TL;DR ◂
Short version: Reta slows gastric emptying → oral medication gets absorbed differently → the pill becomes less reliable. At the same time you're losing weight, which can bring fertility back.
Use back-up contraception at the start and at every dose increase.
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Before anyone panics: Reta itself won't get you pregnant. The problem sits somewhere else – and it runs in three steps.
STEP 1
Reta slows down your gastric emptying
That's the starting point for everything else. Your stomach releases its contents more slowly than before.
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STEP 2
So oral medication works differently
Anything you swallow gets absorbed differently than it did before.
▸ The pill is oral medication.
▸ So it no longer necessarily works the way it worked before.
▸ So it no longer necessarily works the way it worked before.
⚠ It's possible – and there are studies on this – that with compounds like tirzepatide, in this case Reta, hormones don't get absorbed by the body as well as they did before.
Fewer hormones absorbed means less contraceptive protection.
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STEP 3
On top of that: the weight loss
And this is the part almost nobody factors in: losing weight can restart your cycle and bring your fertility back.
Contraception gets weaker.
Fertility gets stronger.
Both at once, both from the same peptide.
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WHAT YOU SHOULD DO
- Use back-up contraception while taking compounds like this
- Use back-up contraception at every dose increase – not just the first one
Otherwise there really could be a baby.
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