the pill

After Carlson falsely presented it as forbidden information with “you were not allowed to criticize the pill,” Means fired off a rapid series of lies.

More than 1,500 adults across 10 countries with both obesity and type 2 diabetes took the pill daily alongside advice to eat a healthy diet and exercise.

This is similar to research published earlier this year that found that people with obesity but not diabetes lost around 12 percent of their body weight while taking the pill.

The pill is an oral selective oestrogen receptor, designed to fight tumors driven by the hormone estrogen, which are estimated to account for up to 70% of all breast cancer cases.

"There is nothing we can do - go on the pill and come back and see me when you want to have a baby," she says the doctor told her.