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The Average Menstrual Cycle Does Not Last 28 Days, But 29.3 Days

...experienced cycles that lasted anywhere between 25 and 30 days. Women’s menstrual cycle data was retrieved from a period tracker app called Natural Cycles, which also funded the study. “Traditionally,...

By Anubhuti Matta

Validation Is Step One

Covid19 Vaccine Linked to Only Small Changes in Menstrual Cycles, Shows U.S. Study

...observed an average two-day increase in cycle length over a menstrual period. The unvaccinated individuals, on the other hand, saw “no significant change” to their menstrual cycles during the course...

By Saumya Kalia

Your Menstrual Cycle Keeps Changing Throughout Your Lifetime

...peak sensitivity to the hormone that triggers ovulation, your cycle might shorten — from a 28-day cycle, to a 25-day cycle. Related on The Swaddle: Tampons to Sponges, A Round‑up...

By Liesl Goecker

All You Can Eat

Hormones Change Appetite, Body Image Throughout the Menstrual Cycle

...Swaddle: Your Menstrual Cycle Keeps Changing Throughout Your Lifetime On the other hand, binge-eating and body dissatisfaction during the middle of the month — in the follicular phase right before...

Lockdown Stress Is Disrupting Menstrual Cycles

Amid the Covid19-induced lockdowns across the globe, people have reported experiencing their menstrual cycles differently then before — in terms of either flow, or onset, or duration, or even cramps....

By Devrupa Rakshit

Fluctuating Trauma

How Menstrual Cycles Can Fluctuate PTSD Symptoms in Women

...Philadelphia, in a press release. The present study included 40 participants with normal menstrual cycles, between the ages of 18-33, who had witnessed or experienced a traumatic event like sexual...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

Why People May Be More Creative During Certain Phases of Menstrual Cycles

...unexplored link between our reproductive system and our creative cognition. First, the researchers determined the menstrual cycle phases of the participants using saliva-and-urine-based test kits. Then, they assessed their creativity...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Women’s Sex Drive Fluctuates Throughout the Menstrual Cycle

...For instance, in one of them, to chart libido and sexual functioning, researchers asked 115 women, between ages 23 and 45, to complete a survey twice: once mid-cycle around ovulation...

By Anubhuti Matta

How Indian Women’s Mental Health Is Deeply Tied to Proper Menstrual Care

...cycles and hormone levels would skew results. The menstrual-mental association highlights the need for collecting data based on different points in the menstrual health cycle, taking into account hormonal changes....

By Anna Maria Joseph

Period Positive

Large‑Scale Review of Research Finds Menstrual Cups Safe, Effective

A first-of-its-kind scientific, large-scale review of research around menstrual cup use has concluded menstrual cups are both safe and leak as much or less than common menstrual products, like pads...

By Liesl Goecker

Women Lose Nine Days of Productivity Annually Due to Menstrual Symptoms

...While mild pain or discomfort could be seen as part of a “normal” menstrual cycle, if pain or any other menstrual symptoms are enough to prevent normal activities such as...

By Mike Armour, Christina Curry & Freya MacMillan, The Conversation

Scientific Proof that Your Period Doesn’t Affect Your Brain

...processes at different stages in the menstrual cycle. While analysis of the results from the first cycle suggested that cognitive bias and attention were affected, these results weren’t replicated in...

By The Swaddle Team

It’s Time to Study How Covid19 Vaccines Affect Menstrual Health: Experts

“There is one potential side effect of Covid19 vaccines that has been reported consistently, and just as consistently ignored: changes to the menstrual cycles,” an article in Quartz reads. Despite...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Severe Menstrual Cramps Linked to Air‑Pollution Exposure: Study

...that decodes the role air pollution plays in menstrual cycle function. Dysmenorrhea is a wildly common gynecological condition, affecting almost 16-91% of people of reproductive age. The painful and severe...

By Saumya Kalia

Let's Talk About It!

Ovulation Cramps Aren’t Discussed as Often as Menstrual Cramps. Are They Normal?

The experience of living through the pandemic — irrespective of whether or not one contracted the virus — triggered a host of changes in many individuals’ menstrual cycles. For some,...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Period Irregularities and Stress Levels Have Risen Together Since 2020: Study

Ever since the pandemic began, women from across the world have taken to social media to discuss unanticipated irregularities in their menstrual cycles. A digital health platform in India, in...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Can Mental Illnesses Make PMS Worse?

...Stress Is Disrupting Menstrual Cycles Individuals living with bipolar disorder, for instance, experience a worsening of their usual symptoms right before their periods, even while being treated for the pre-existing...

By Devrupa Rakshit

A Crash Course on Periods for Anyone Who Needs It

...uterus, ovaries, Fallopian tubes, cervix, vagina, and vulva. What’s a menstrual cycle? A menstrual cycle begins when the ovaries release an egg (ovulation). The uterus then starts building up a...

By Pallavi Prasad

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