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From: msw1633@zeus.tamu.edu (WHITSITT, MARK STEVEN)
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Subject: Re: Effects of hormones: A question
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Date: 9 Apr 91 04:35:08 GMT
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In article <7249@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>, pjy@ukc.ac.uk (P.J.Young) writes...
> 
>Just a quick question, a while a go I watched a program of television in the
>UK, called QED. It was concerned with the effects of hormones, one claim it
>made as I remember was that if several women lived in a house togeother that
>there menstrual periods would eventually go into sink. This seems to be a
>bit far fetched to me. Could anyone give me a (decent) journal reference for
>this?


No journal reference, but one of my friends as an undergrad was a Resident 
Advisor in a girls' dorm, and she said that alot of the girls there did indeed 
appear to show the signs of beginning to syncronize their periods...they had not 
been together long enough, I guess, to fully syncronize.  Just passing along 
second hand information :)



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