How the Pill Changes Everything: Your Brain on Birth Control

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This book will help women make more informed decisions about their health, whether they’re on the pill or off of it.

This study also measured administered cortisol doses in pill and non pill taking women and essentially concluded that women on the pill have maxed out their ability to manage excess cortisol, which can essentially lead to chronic stress.Hill also does a lot of speculating in this book, and some of it based on pretty shaky theoretical ground.

It seems a natural cycle makes a woman more attuned to sexiness thanks to oestrogen levels, but progesterone dominance in Pill-taking women emphasises qualities that would have helped to keep them safe and secure when preparing for pregnancy.Her enlightening findings are a major step forward and will help women around the world make smarter, more informed choices about their health and hormones.

This book provides an even-handed, science-based understanding of who women are, both on and off the pill. Despite believing in a theory which allegedly explains all of human history, her sense of history is poor in that she seems to have thought women have had a significant say in their “mating” choices/marriages/etc. Dr Hill explains that PMS and PMDD symptoms are believed to be caused by abnormal psychological responses to changing levels of hormones across the cycle.The backlash we are seeing against the pill, particularly with millennial women walking away from it, I think is because women haven’t felt right on it and have grown weary of doctors patting them on their heads and telling them they are wrong. Although women go on the pill for a small handful of targeted effects (pregnancy prevention and clearer skin, yay! There is a full explanation of how the female reproductive organs work at the start - which again, education that should be provided to all women, but is seemingly lacking in schools. Sometimes they were not noted at all (I found two consecutive references unmarked in the first chapter).

When I lived in Asia, I stopped taking birth control as I really didn't trust getting it in China where "controls" and "standards" are laughable at best. I'm not sure if I was ever a different person on it, but intuitively, I lean more and more towards not messing around with man-made hormones. g the fact that women who are high fertility or in their ovulation phase are likely to cheat on their partners because they are attracted to traditionally good-looking men during those days ( WTF! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Furthermore, the book is filled with messages that women live for men, are very concerned with what men think of them, and will be unhappy if men do not give them the attention they want (which, according to her, might be because of the pill). While most pills include some synthetic oestrogen – primarily to offset progestin’s unpleasant side-effects – women can feel the lack.