This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

This is an eye-opening book that reveals crucial information about hormonal birth control. It explains how hormonal birth control affects women and the world. By controlling fertility, the birth control pill has revolutionized women’s lives. However, there’s more to the pill than meets the eye. While women take the pill for specific effects like pregnancy prevention and clearer skin, sex hormones impact billions of cells in the body, including those in the brain. These hormones influence attraction, sexual motivation, stress, hunger, eating, emotion regulation, friendships, aggression, mood, learning, and more. This means being on the birth control pill can make women a different version of themselves. These changes can be positive or negative. The pill also affects what women’s brains do, leading to cascading effects on everything and everyone they encounter.

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