What We Got Wrong About the Female Body (Cat Bohannon, PhD)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

There is a historical lack of research on the female body—and this has hurt women, men, everyone. But now, there is some fascinating research on the female body, which Cat Bohannon, PhD, shares today. (Bohannon is the New York Times–bestselling author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution.) For example, Bohannon explains why the fat around our butts and hips is quite special, and how women tend to metabolize painkillers differently than men. She breaks down the evolutionary origins of breast size and shape, and she debunks the myth that men are much larger than women. We talk about why women tend to heal better and live longer than men. And what’s really at stake for our health and lives when it comes to understanding sex differences. For the show notes and more on Cat Bohannon, head over to my Substack. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Elise Luna and host of Pulling the Thread. Today I'm talking to researcher Kat Bohannett
0:05.6	about some surprising differences and similarities between the male and female body.
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0:39.8	slash setup. Hi, it's Elise Loonen, host of Pulling the Thread. On this show, we pull apart the web in which
0:57.9	we all live to understand who we are and why we're here. My hope is that these conversations
1:03.6	spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness so that we might all collectively
1:09.1	learn and grow.
1:12.7	Here is today's guest, Kat Bohannon, on why it's important to study and truly understand
1:17.6	female bodies.
1:19.3	It's important to figure out how to have universal buy-in to the idea that we should study
1:24.3	sex differences, right?
1:25.7	It's not just a matter of pity. It's not
1:28.4	just a matter of reducing the suffering of females. Though that should be enough, but it's not just about.
1:33.7	It's also that weirdly we're going to save a lot of male lives by figuring out why they die so much.
1:38.9	Katohanan is a researcher and the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Eve,
1:43.6	how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution. It is a researcher and the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Eve, How the Female Body Drove 200
1:45.6	million years of human evolution. It is full of fascinating detours about how the female body came to be.
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