This Is Your Brain on Birth Control - The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences (Hill Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know This groundbreaking book sheds light on how birth control affects women--and the world around them--in ways we are only just 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 they ever have in the past, 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 effects (pregnancy prevention and clearer skin, yay ), women's sex hormones aren't that simple. Sex hormones impact the activities of billions of cells in the body at once, many of which are in the
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