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  • How the Pill Changes Everything

  • Your Brain on Birth Control
  • By: Sarah E Hill
  • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
  • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (47 ratings)

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By: Sarah E Hill
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
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Publisher's Summary

'It's time for all of us to join together to ask science for some new choices and for more information about what happens to us with the choices we have. We shouldn't have to change who we are to protect ourselves from pregnancy, and we should know enough about how our own bodies work to recognise that this is exactly what we're doing when we go on the birth control pill.'

Hormonal contraception is something most women will use at some point during their life. But the reach of the pill goes far beyond the small number of targeted effects we take it for. It affects almost every system in our body. Column inches and anecdotal conversations prove there are many questions about the pill and its effects yet until now we have known very little about. 

In this trailblazing book expert psychologist Dr Hill reveals the latest science on the pill and how it's changing women and the world, for better and for worse.   

Dr Hill examines cutting-edge research, some of it conducted in her own lab, that shows how the pill affects everything from stress response to autoimmune disorders, mate selection to declining levels of male achievement. Some of her findings are shocking, others will simply verify things you suspected for a long time but figured were all in your head. Dr Hill signals a rallying cry for better science - for too long women have been understudied as research subjects. Their cycles are more complicated, it's more expensive to do research on them, and scientists are under so much pressure to publish that it's often easier to just use a largely male testing pool, or one that ignores important factors for women.     

How the Pill Changes Everything will open your eyes and put you in a position of power. It provides the latest science so that you can understand the risks, weigh up the costs and make smarter, more informed choices about your health and hormones.

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©2019 Sarah E Hill (P)2019 Penguin Random House Audio LLC

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Very informative

I learnt so much and have been made more aware of how all differently each person can respond to different contraceptives. I will not underestimate the effects of hormones again.

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Changed my life

This book has changed my life. I love that it is not biased for or against the pill and just states the facts.

Every woman should read this book.

I enjoyed the narrators voice and reading style too

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Every women should read this!

Doctors suck at giving women the information we need to make the best choices about our health. This is partly because medical research on women is so far behind research on men. And partly a cultural legacy of doctors just not believing women or taking women seriously. The area of contraception is a perfect example of this! Read this book to find out all the things your doctor should have told you but probably didn't. Unfortunately there are no easy answers but greater knowledge can empower you to make the best of what's on offer.

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read it!!

a must read for every teen or woman thinking about birth control. goes through mate selection and changes in personality and job. how partner selection is different on the pill and how women on the pill select partners differently to those not. how this can lead to divorce or break up up coming off or going on birth control.

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Best EvoPsych book i've consumed in a while...

Ya'll need to listen to this! Even men! Coz the pill is changing everyone. And it ain't all bad. It just is.

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all women should read this book.

educational and unbiased. this is a must read for all women - on the pill, off the pill, or just beginning their contriception journey. This book highlights some very important points we must all consider when dealing with women's health.

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Everyone must read!!

Everyone no matter your age or gender should read this book to understand and learn how we as women can take control of our lives and what goes into our bodies. Everyone deserves to have the knowledge to make a choice and this book is very eye opening on some of the biggest issues we will experience in our lives as women.

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An integral read for every woman

A diplomatic approach to being informed and understanding your own body. Could not recommend this more.

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