This is Your Brain on Birth Control The Surprising Science of Sex, Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
eAudio - 2019
An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should knowThis 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. By allowing women to control their fertility, the birth control pill has revolutionized women's lives. 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. But there's a lot more to the pill than meets the eye.Although women go on the pill for a small handful of targeted effects (pregnancy prevention and clearer skin, yay!), s...ex hormones can't work that way. Sex hormones impact the activities of billions of cells in the body at once, many of which are in the brain. There, they play a role in influencing attraction, sexual motivation, stress, hunger, eating patterns,...
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File Size | 258 GB |
Parts | 11 |
ISBN | 9780593151877 |
Release Date | 10/1/2019 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 258 GB |
ISBN | 9780593151877 |
Release Date | 10/1/2019 |