Today’s guest is going to make people’s brains explode. She’s in the business of unpacking years of information, debunking myths, and pursuing fact over fear when it comes to the medication so ubiquitous it’s been dubbed simply “The Pill.” I am talking, of course, about the small-but-mighty birth control pill. Yet despite its commonality, if it weren’t for people like Holly Grigg-Spall, we might not know how hard a pill it is to swallow. You may know Holly from her Guardian op-ed on the pill, which was ranked the most-read comment piece of 2016, went viral, became a “Twitter Moment,” and landed her a prized feature in the Washington Post and interview on NPR. She’s been named the poster girl for the movement of women abandoning the pill in favor of contraceptives that don’t wreak havoc on their body and mind, has collaborated with Alanis Morissette about the pro period revolution — talk about a Jagged Little Pill — and is the author of the cult book “Sweetening the Pill: Or How We Got Hooked On Hormonal Birth Control.” If you’ve, like me, lost years of your life to birth control and cleaning up the mess it left, you’ll want to know everything you can about how something so small can leave such damage in its wake.

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