The Period Brain: How Hormones Change Women’s Behaviour - Dr Sarah Hill - #992

Two books on the vagina. Congratulations. I think it's a little bit more complex than that. I think it's a little more complex than that, but thank you. Why this one? Well

You know, actually, you know, it it was the biologists in me that kinda led me to this one. Um, so the first book was really more about my I I ended up in a rabbit hole because of my personal experiences with the pill. And this one I ended up in a rabbit hole because I couldn't understand why women feel so terrible. During the last two weeks of their cycle. I'm you know, and from an evolutionary perspective, like it doesn't make a lot of sense. For women like

To all have a disorder. Right. It just doesn't make any sense because generally if there's some sort of a trait and it's causing problems, it'll get selected out of the population. And there's been all this really wonderful work that's been done in our field looking at you know, the impact of estrogen and how when estrogen is high and rising across the cycle, that it does all of these really amazing functional things within the human, you know, within the within women's brains and then with their behavior and everything else. But like There's nothing like that about what goes on in the second half of the cycle. Instead, it just seems like women feel terrible. And so I was trying to understand.

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