In addition to their hormonal effect, it has also been proven that the birth control pills’ hormones also affect the nutritional and metabolic factors. Women using oral contraceptives may desire to intake the nutritional supplementation for adjusting some of the biochemical alternations that are resulted by the pill. Women preferring BCPs require higher amount of the folate, and this might be especially the only fact for the women acquiring cervical dysplasia( cervix’s precancerous anomalous cells). It have been revealed that the regular ingestion of steroids presented in BCPs depress the levels of vitamin B12, pyridoxine, ascorbic acid, zinc and riboflavin. Hormones sometimes are responsible on affecting the breast tenderness, increasing the risk of blood clotting, and inducing a wide array of side effects among some women. Additionally, they are also metabolized in one’s liver. Supporting breast health, offering careful nutritional support, and advancing detoxification pathways and hormonal metabolism may also optimize the experience of preferring hormonal contraception. The deficiency of Riboflavin may take place with the use of oral contraceptive for the long periods. Maybe the OCs interferes with the gastrointestinal absorptions or binding or with metabolism. It has been assumed that most of the women preferring OCs for longer than 6 months manifest the unusual tryptophan metabolism. The Vitamin B6 gain capability to normalize the tryptophan metabolism. Although not reliable, some research has proved that OCs highly disturb the folate metabolism. Some researches conducted over the animals have shown that the oral contraceptives decrease blood levels of the Vitamin E. Vitamin E is actually the leading antioxidant for the lipids, responsible in protecting the structures against the toxic compounds, and is extremely necessary in the immune function. Most of the investigations have shown that there is reduction in levels of plasma zinc while pursuing the OCs’s administration.

Finally, those women preferring hormonal contraceptives are likely to experience the changes in their vaginal pH and this can lead in alternations in orgasms’ balance in the vagina. Actually, Lactobacillus species hits the first rank when it comes to maintaining a healthy and perfect ecological environment for vagina and they are also responsible for preventing vagina from yeast and other vaginal infections. Liver support may be the additional consideration for aiding the steroids’ metabolism.