Well, Sup Family, welcome to another episode of the Genius Life. I'm your host Max Lugovir,

filmmaker, health and science journalist, and the author of The New York Times Best Selling

Book Genius Foods. On this episode of the show, I'm super excited to introduce you to Dr. Sarah

Hill. Sarah is the author of This Is Your Brain on Birth Control, the surprising science of women,

hormones, and the law of unintended consequences. She's a leading researcher in the dynamic and

rapidly expanding field of evolutionary psychology, and has more than 50 scientific publications and

multiple prestigious research grants under her belt. She's becoming authority on the application

of evolutionary ideas to human behavior and psychology. So, in continuing with the theme from last

weeks, episode of The Genius Life, this episode is going to do a deep dive into all things,

women's health, but whether you're a male or a female or gender non-binary, you're going to get

a ton out of this episode I promise you. Over the next hour and 15 minutes, you're going to

discover the pros and cons of hormonal birth control and other methods such as the rhythm method

and copper IUD, how the pill can affect behavior, attraction, and sex through its influence on the

hormone estrogen, the potential dangers of early life exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals,

and so much more. Honestly, you guys, this is one of my favorite episodes to date, and Sarah was

just a pleasure to interview, so I highly recommend listening through to the end of this episode,

as well as picking up her book, This is Your Brain on Birth Control. But before we get to it,

I want to give a shout out to the sponsor of this episode of the show, and that is for

sigmatic. As some of you guys may know, if you follow me on Instagram for the past three weeks,

I have gone completely without caffeine, no coffee, except for the occasional decaf, which I know

you guys has a tiny, tiny trace amount of caffeine, but generally speaking, I went from going

from three to four cups of coffee a day to zero, and I got to tell you, after that first three

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