Hormones w/ Randi Hutter Epstein

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by Dr. Randi Hutter Epstein, author of “Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything.” They talk about her work as a science and medicine writer, and her winding journey from M.D. to M.P.H. and everything in between. Then they focus on the topic of her new book, the fascinating history and current impact of human hormones.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, April 8th, 2019 and I'm
0:17.9	Kara Santa Maria. I want to thank those of you who supported the show this week by going to Patreon. Thank you
0:25.0	who supported the show this week by going to Patreon.com slash talk nerdy and pledging your support.
0:29.0	The top patrons this week are Timothy Glover, Pedro M Rosario Barbosa Phil T Bear Bear the zombie drummer David
0:37.8	J. E. Smith Jeffrey Perez Charles Payette Gabrielle, Felipe Hermio Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewell.
0:45.9	Thank you all so, so very much.
0:48.6	All right guys, I'm really excited about this week's show because I had a chance to chat with an incredible woman.
0:56.4	She's a medical writer, a lecturer at Yale University, a writer in residence at Yale Medical
1:02.1	School and an adjunct professor at Columbia University
1:05.1	Graduate School of Journalism.
1:07.8	Her name is Dr. Randy Hutter Epstein and her new book is aroused the history of hormones and how they
1:16.7	control just about everything. Yes indeed they do. This is a fascinating chat and I don't want to keep you guys from it. So without any
1:26.1	further ado, here she is, Randy Hutter Epstein. Well Randy, thank you so much for joining me today. I'm thrilled to be here. I'm aroused. I'm aroused to be here actually.
1:38.0	Well, that is so perfect because of course we're talking about your new book aroused the history of hormones and how they control just about everything.
1:49.0	You know what's funny is I was talking to one of my supervisors just yesterday and she was saying that she was struggling once
1:55.4	when she was trying to counsel a friend, she's a psychologist, but she wasn't talking to a patient,
2:01.5	she was just trying to counsel a friend who was dealing with postpartum.
2:05.4	And she thought that trying to tell her, yeah, obviously, you know, there's a lot going
2:11.2	on in your mind and you're dealing with these feelings of
2:15.1	distress and these feelings of guilt but honestly your body is just like crazy
2:21.8	with hormones right now and you've got to listen to yourself
2:24.8	and understand that it's really hard to control those kinds of things. But then she felt like maybe I'm
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