Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!skybridge!garvey From: garvey@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Heather Garvey) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Effects of hormones: A question Message-ID: <1991Apr14.002322.3160@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 14 Apr 91 00:23:22 GMT References: <7249@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Organization: Smith Undergrad Lab, CWRU, Cleve. OH Lines: 22 X-Post-Machine: everest.scl.cwru.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: everest.scl.cwru.edu 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? Well, now that I think about it, having lived with five other women for two years now, I certainly don't think it's exact. But the two who I've been living with for the whole two years...We do tend to get our periods around the same time. Could just be chance, though. I mean, there's a 25% chance, you know.... -- And every time I've held a rose | Heather "Duckie" Garvey, Biochem CIT '93 It seems I only felt the thorns | garvey@scl.cwru.edu *or* hlg@po.cwru.edu And so it goes, and so it goes | Member of Michael Sidman's Racquetball And so will you soon, I suppose | Harem (: "Put that camera down!")