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From: ward@unix386.Convergent.COM (Ward Griffiths)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Effects of hormones: A question
Message-ID: <7239@unix386.Convergent.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 91 16:58:51 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?
	
While I haven't done any sort of formal study on the
process, in over sixteen years of involvement with
extended/open marriages and multiple female residents
under the same roof, I have observed this happen
several times.  And once synchronization occurs,
about the only thing that will break synch is for one
of the women to get pregnant or move out.

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