A leading researcher in the dynamic and rapidly expanding field of evolutionary psychology, Sarah E. Hill completed her PhD at UT Austin and is now a professor at TCU. With more than 50 scientific publications and multiple prestigious research grants to her credit, Dr. Hill has become an authority on evolutionary approaches to psychology and health. She is the author of This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences.
What you'll learn from this episode:
The science behind how hormonal birth control pills actually work and what they do to keep a woman from ovulating.
What a woman is signing herself up for when filling her birth control prescription, and the trade-offs she'll experience by going on the pill.
How modifying a woman's level of sex hormones influences every system in her body—including behavior and who she finds attractive.
How changing the chemical signals in the body also changes who we are and the version of ourselves that the brain has created.
Alternatives to hormonal birth control and how they compare in effectiveness.
And so much more!
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Resources from this episode:
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences by Sarah E. Hill, PhD
Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life by Max Lugavere and Paul Grewal M.D.
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