Although women go on the pill for a small handful of targeted effects (pregnancy prevention and clearer skin, yay!), sex hormones can't work that way. But there's a lot more to the pill than meets the eye. Women are going to college, graduating, and entering the workforce in greater numbers than ever before, and there's good reason to believe that the birth control pill has a lot to do with this. By allowing women to control their fertility, the birth control pill has revolutionized women's lives. 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.ĭid you know that the Pill not only creates a different version of yourself, but can change your brain, remove a key feature of your stress response, potentially increase your risk of depression and even have the ability to fundamentally change your mate selection? This is your Brain on Birth Control will open your eyes to all this and more, putting you in position of power so that you can understand the risks, weigh up the costs and make smarter, more informed choices about your health and hormones.About the Book This groundbreaking book sheds light on how hormonal birth control affects women-and the world around them-in ways people are just now beginning to understand.nderstand.īook Synopsis An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know This groundbreaking book sheds light on how hormonal birth control affects women-and the world around them-in ways we are just now beginning to understand.
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 it, in part because research on our brains and our bodies was conducted almost exclusively on men. It affects almost every system in our body. But the reach of the pill goes far beyond the small number of targeted effects we take it for. Hormonal contraception is something most women will use at some point during their lifetime. 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 recognize that this is exactly what we're doing when we go on the birth control pill' '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.
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