Welcome to From the Kitchen Table. I'm here today with my daughter Evita, who's filling in for Sean, because we have a guest that she's really interested in and I am too

and so we're going to do this together. We have a very special guest. Her name is Dr. Sarah Hill.

I've been fascinated with her for a long time listening to everything she's doing and her book.

Her book is called This is Your Brain on Birth Control, the surprising science of women, hormones, and the

law of unintended consequences. So with no further ado, Dr. Hill, thanks for joining us at the

kitchen table. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. So I'm so fascinated by this entire topic.

By the way, we're mother-daughter.

I'm 52.

I'm perimenopausal right now.

I've had nine kids.

Evina is my first, and she is 24, and she's been married, what, almost two years?

Almost two years.

So she's never been pregnant, though.

So, but this topic, obviously, super interesting, super important.

And so let's just start with this.

The pill was approved by the FDA in 1960.

And I look at your book, and I look at at your research and I'm scratching my head going,

why hasn't this research been done before? So could you answer that and then we'll get into

the nitty gritty? Because actually the most shocking part of this is that you're the first person

to talk about this. Yeah. No, I found that I found that to be true myself.

I was like, am I really the first person to have this conversation?

And, you know, I mean, originally, like, I think that this conversation wasn't being had just because, you know,

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