Jolene Brighten, you already know that, for all of their positives, hormonal birth control pills come with a hefty assortment of negatives that affect not only a woman’s reproductive system, but her entire body. If you happened to catch our recent episode with Dr. Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally! 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. Why, in spite of its drawbacks, Sarah credits the pill to her own ability to achieve a doctorate and career success.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 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.How hormonal birth control affects women - and the world around them - in ways we are just now beginning to understand.Sarah Hill ( 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.
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