E271: What Women Aren't Told: Cycles and The Pill w/Dr Sarah Hill | Lila Rose Show
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Why are women expected to feel tired, cranky, or just off for up to two weeks every month? It doesn’t have to be this way — and knowing why is a game-changer.
In this episode, evolutionary psychologist Dr. Sarah Hill breaks down the two major phases of the menstrual cycle and how wildly different our energy, sleep, cravings, and social needs can be between them. And here’s the big takeaway: once women understand these shifts, small daily changes can massively improve mood, energy, and even support fertility.
It’s time to stop treating women’s bodies like men’s or flattening hormones with the pill. Instead, we should use the power of cyclical biology to our advantage. This emerging science is about to revolutionize women’s health and the way we understand women altogether.
Dr Hill's website: https://www.sarahehill.com/
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:00 - Getting off the pill
00:18:18 - Sex Hormones affect everything
00:25:00 - One size does NOT fit all
00:28:14 - PMS
00:35:51 - What makes PMS worse?
00:42:14 - Infertility and loss of ovulation
00:48:14 - What does a good ovulation look like?
01:02:43 - Protein
01:16:10 - Female Human sexuality is unique
01:24:00 - Exercise
01:25:10 - How does hormonal birth control work?
01:28:20 - Sexual Attraction on the Pill
01:34:53 - Does the Pill "make women bisexual"?
01:38:17 - What else does the Pill do?
01:42:20 - Does the pill make women NOT want children?
01:47:59 - Obesity
01:54:10 - Fertility
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| 0:29.9 | ovulation is not something that we can take for granted 12 years that i was on hormonal birth control |
| 0:34.7 | three months after i stopped using it, everything just seemed |
| 0:38.3 | deeper and richer and had more amplitude. The hormonal changes that happen in the second half |
| 0:43.3 | of the cycle are 10 times in magnitude of those that happen in the first half. For men, you can give |
| 0:47.9 | them one size fits all guidelines. If you tell a woman, you need to eat X number of calories a day, |
| 0:53.2 | that might be true for the first half of the menstrual cycle, but it's not going to be true for the second half. PMS is really the result of three things, right? One, our health is helping other people. When you care for yourself, you are caring for your husband. You're caring for your children if you have children. You're caring for your future children if you haven't conceived yet. It's all connected. |
| 1:18.5 | Which surprising activities can disrupt a woman's menstrual cycle? What happens to a woman's brain and body when she is on birth control? And how do we maximize our menstrual cycles for |
| 1:23.3 | fertility, cognition, and relationships? Our hormones and menstrual cycles affect almost everything |
| 1:29.8 | about a woman's life. And understanding those changes is essential not just for reproduction, |
| 1:35.1 | bringing new life into the world, but for our everyday lives and relationships. Welcome back to the |
| 1:39.8 | Lila Rose show. Today I'm sitting down with Dr. Sarah Hill, who is a research psychologist and the author |
| 1:45.3 | of This Is Your Brain on Birth Control and the period brain. We discuss misconceptions about |
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