
05/09/2025
Did you know that if you take hormone pills for a long time, you’re basically telling your body to stop producing that hormone?
Our body has a very smart system for regulating hormones, like a thermostat. When the level of a hormone is high enough, the brain tells the glands: “Stop, don’t produce anymore, we have enough!”
👉 If you bring in hormones from the outside (through pills, injections, patches, etc.), the body perceives that the “tank is already full.” The brain stops sending signals to the glands, and they begin to reduce their activity.
⚠️ If you do this for a short time, the body usually recovers quickly.
But if you take hormones for a longer period, the glands become “lazy” and may end up not producing naturally as well—or even at all.
It’s like driving a car on autopilot: if someone else is always pressing the gas pedal for you, your leg muscle will weaken and no longer know how to do the job on its own.
That’s why long-term hormone treatments should always be supervised by a doctor and often tapered off gradually, to give the body the chance to restart its own production.