Dr Sarah Hill: Believe Your Body

We’ve got a corker for you today! I’m so pleased to share my conversation with Dr Sarah Hill, the author of the books How The Pill Changes Everything: Your Brain on Birth Control and The Period Brain: The New Science of the Luteal Phase and How To Thrive Through It on today’s episode of Period Story.

In this episode, Dr Sarah shares:

Why her experience as a psychologist led her to write two books on the effects of women’s cycling hormones and the brain
Her thoughts on biological essentialism and how our biology, including our hormones, influences what we do
Why progesterone is underrated, including the amazing fact that our peak progesterone levels are up to 250 times higher than our peak oestrogen levels
Why we need to eat more in the second half of our menstrual cycle
Why PMS is not a pathological condition, but an inevitable consequence of experiencing hormonal changes in a world that wasn’t created with female bodies in mind
What the vagus nerve is and how vagal nerve stimulation can be a helpful treatment in decreasing the symptomology of PMDD, perimenopause, and heavy menstrual bleeding
And of course, the story of her first period

Dr Sarah says that it’s important to learn to listen to your body and trust what it’s telling you, so you believe your body.

Thank you, Dr Sarah!

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