Ep. 1: Hormones and Ep. 2: Challenges

Kathryn interviews Yale lecturer and medical writer Randi Hutter Epstein MD, author of “Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything”. Dr. Epstein takes us on a fascinating tour of the unique history and science behind one of medicine’s most important discoveries — hormones — and our quest to control them. Dr. Epstein’s expertise is featured in the Washington Post, the NYTimes, the Guardian and on ABC News. Kathryn also interviews mother and activist Eliza Factor, author of “Strange Beauty: A Portrait of My Son”. This intimate, no-holds barred memoir is the story of two little girls growing up in the shadow of their charming and fitful brother and of a mother imagining the world through the eyes of her son born with multiple disabilities, including cerebral palsy and autism. Eliza describes her pregnancy and the first few blissful months with Felix before the awareness that their son’s life, and their own, will not be at all like she had imagined.