Awakening from Hormonal Shadows

Dr. Sarah Hill (@sarahehillphd) is a leading researcher in the dynamic and rapidly expanding field of evolutionary psychology, and the author of This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences.

• How hormonal birth control affects women -- and the world around them -- in ways we are just now beginning to understand.
• Why a woman will be attracted to a certain partner while taking hormonal birth control -- and the problems this could cause for a relationship when she stops taking it.
• On a hormonal contraceptive, a woman is twice as likely to have attempted suicide as a woman who was not on a hormonal contraceptive.
• Why, in spite of its drawbacks, Sarah credits the pill to her own ability to achieve a doctorate and career success.
• Why these new findings should be a rallying cry for women to demand more information from science about how their bodies and brains work and to advocate for better research.
• And much more...

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