Hey all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast. I'm your host, pharmacist, Eric Christensen.

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today and that is ethanol estradiol. And I wanted to break these apart a little bit because

ethanol estradiol is part of combined oral contraceptives with a progesterone component.

Obviously, ethanol estradiol is the estrogen type component.

Brand names of those combination oral contraceptives include Sprintech, Jolesa, Apre, Lovora, Cariva, Nottrell, Yaz.

So there's tons and tons of brand name Moro Controceptives,

and each one tends to either have a different dosage of ethanol estradiol and or a different progesterone

component. So that's really what the difference is. So you've got to kind of look at each

individual label, each individual brand name. And I will say our friends at pearls.com have a wonderful resource with all the brand names,

and I certainly didn't list them all in the podcast here.

So to do that, you can go check out pearls.com slash rlp, like real-life pharmacology.com.

Simply creating a free account there, you'll get access to their layout, their PDF,

of all the different birth control options, brand names,

and what the different strength and dosage forms are there.

So a great resource.

I used it to help kind of put this together a little bit as well.

So let's get into mechanism of action a little bit.

Estrogen, so ethanol estradial is basically estrogen.

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