5 Weird Things Our Menstrual Cycles Make Us Do

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Posted by Maressa Brown
on October 19, 2010 at 7:56 AM

As if it weren’t enough that we feel crappy when we’re PMSing or ovulating. (Got mittelschmerz? No, it’s not a type of German lager … it’s those strange mid-cycle cramps!) Turns out that our hormones could influence behavior, immunity — and yeah, even our bank accounts at different points in our cycle.

Menstruation and the Mall

Women are more likely to engage in problematic shopping behaviors during certain times in their menstruation cycle, according to newly published research.
Miller-McCune

October 5, 2010
By Tom Jacobs

Ladies: Do you sometimes engage in compulsive shopping? Do you find yourself purchasing items on impulse or wildly exceeding your budget?

Newly published research suggests this troubling tendency can be curtailed, simply by changing the time you visit the mall.

Not the time of day. The time of the month.

Museum of Menstruation consumed Maryland man Harry Finley

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Amanda Hess
Sex and gender at work, in bed and on the street

October 5, 2010 – 02:30 PM

From 1994 to 1998, Department of Defense employee Harry Finley curated and operated the Museum of Menstruation out of his suburban Maryland basement. The museum exists now only online and in storage boxes in Finley’s home.

But the years Finley spent assembling, displaying, and defending this collection of historical menstruation artifacts left him with a blocked coronary and a dream: That the culture of menstruation that had consumed Finley would one day be publicly available, out in the open, at a real museum.

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Leslie C. Botha

Leslie Carol Botha leslie@holyhormones.com Leslie Carol Botha, Women’s Health Educator, author, publisher, and broadcast journalist  is an internationally recognized expert on women’s hormonal health.  Her work emphasizes the significance of the hormone cycle and its profound relationship to women’s psyche. Botha’s 30 years of research demonstrates how hormone changes/fluctuations in the menstrual cycle affect women’s Continue Reading …

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