Third-Party Confirmation of the Effects of Oral Contraceptives on the Behavior and Abilities of Women
Contraceptive pills change women's brains and make them risk takers
Turns out that oral contraceptive use not only messes with the basic decision-making ability of women, it tangibly thins their prefrontal cortices and thus makes them act like men who are anti-social (and therefore particularly susceptible to suggestion and mass hypnosis).
From https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12716133/contraceptive-pills-change-womens-brains.html:
Alexandra Brouillard, a researcher at Université du Québec à Montréal and first author of the study, told DailyMail.com her team identified that the effect of current OC [oral contraceptive] use on this brain region was associated with the exposure to synthetic estrogen present in the pills
Brouillard said: 'In our study, we show that healthy women currently using [oral contraceptives] had a thinner ventromedial prefrontal cortex than men.
'This part of the prefrontal cortex is thought to sustain emotion regulation, such as decreasing fear signals in the context of a safe situation.
'Our result may represent a mechanism by which COCs could impair emotion regulation in women.'
More than 150 million women use OC across the globe and birth control pills are between 93 and 99 percent effective at preventing pregnancy.
The study also found that only women who were currently taking birth control showed thinning in a part of the brain responsible for processing risk and fear and controlling emotions.
Thinning of this area is thought to cause inhibition deficits, or the loss of social conduct and impulsivity, particularly as it relates to the function of the amygdala, which is gray matter involved with experiencing emotions.
An impaired amygdala lessens fear conditioning - when a person comes to associate something with a negative outcome and has a fearful response.
Take away? It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.