{"id":20290,"date":"2016-03-25T20:33:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T00:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=20290"},"modified":"2016-03-28T20:34:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T00:34:54","slug":"can-womens-periods-really-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/can-womens-periods-really-sync\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Women\u2019s Periods Really Sync Up? An Age Old Question Answered!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I grew up in a household full of women and I surely don’t need scientific evidence to prove that yes, women’s periods can sync up. There has been quite a bit of research done in order to prove menstrual synchrony.<\/p>\n

So what exactly is \u201cmenstrual synchrony\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Menstrual synchrony is a theory that women who live near each other or spend a lot of time together will start to see their cycles sync up so that they get their periods around the same time. Pheromones, or \u201cairborne chemical signals that are released by an individual into the environment and which affect the physiology or behavior of other members of the same species,\u201d have been thought to play a role.<\/p>\n

The concept was first documented in Martha McClintock\u2019s seminal research paper\u00a0in 1971.\u00a0McClintock observed 135 female Wellesley College\u00a0students living in the same dorm and found \u201ca significant increase in synchronization of onset dates\u201d among the women who spent a lot of time together. According to these findings, it\u2019s not just an anecdotal phenomenon \u2014 women do sync up.<\/p>\n

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While some of the researchers who followed McClintock were able to replicate her findings<\/a>, many didn\u2019t find evidence<\/a>\u00a0of menstrual synchrony. In 1992, researcher H. Clyde Wilson\u00a0found errors<\/a>\u00a0in McClintock\u2019s study model, specifically her sample selection and method of determining period start dates at the beginning of her study. When he corrected for those errors, he found no significant evidence of menstrual synchrony.<\/p>\n

The issue is that women\u2019s periods when they\u2019re not on birth control might be too inconsistent to truly sync up. The prevailing theory now is that women\u2019s synchronicity is, as researchers Zhengwei Yang\u00a0and Jeffrey C. Schank put it, \u201cat the level of chance<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In their 2006 study on the topic<\/a>, Yang\u00a0and Schank\u00a0wrote that \u201ccycle variability leads to repeated cycle convergences and subsequent divergences, which may explain the perception of synchrony.\u201d Meaning: Women might\u00a0think<\/em> they\u2019ve synced up their periods when they may have only randomly aligned for a short amount of time and will likely phase in and out of their matched-up schedules.<\/p>\n

But what if you really, really think you\u2019ve experienced it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

While there\u2019s no solid evidence of menstrual synchrony at the moment, that doesn\u2019t mean the book is closed on syncing up. Researchers are still looking into the the theory, and women keep reporting their own non-clinical experiences with it<\/a>. So hey, if you think it\u2019s a thing for you and your friends and family members, then why let researchers spoil the fun? A little period solidarity never hurt anyone.<\/p>\n

Resources :\u00a0<\/em>HuffPost<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/em>ScienceDirect<\/a>\u00a0– ThoughtCatalog<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0SmartSite<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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I grew up in a household full of women and I surely don’t need scientific evidence to prove that yes, women’s periods can sync up. There has been quite a bit of research done in order to prove menstrual synchrony. So what exactly is \u201cmenstrual synchrony\u201d? Menstrual synchrony is a theory that women who live near each other or spend a lot of time together will start to see their cycles sync up so that they get their periods around the same time. Pheromones, or \u201cairborne chemical signals that are released by an individual into the environment and which affect <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,29],"tags":[4527,4528,96],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20295,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290\/revisions\/20295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20290"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}