5 period myths busted: Do menstrual cycles actually sync?
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- 06 Apr 2023
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If you’ve ever sat in your flat, office or within a friendship group and cursed the period gods that your cycles have synced due to the time you spend together, you might have bought into a common period myth.
So before you split a tub of Tip Top four ways, it might pay to know that even while 50 per cent of the population have a period at some point in their life, we actually know very little about them and what we do “know” might actually not have the research to back it up.
It turns out research isn’t on the side of those who menstruate, with sport and exercise medicine physician Dr Rachel Harris revealing, “the research hasn’t been done” with “approximately 6 per cent of all sports science and sports medicine research done in females.”
Femmi, a female physiology education platform, agrees, noting the same statistics and pointing to “a lack of education” which they say “comes down to the money that’s going into research around women and knowing that we need more money to do longer research to actually understand female physiology.”
Dr Harris, the team at Femmi, and Lucy Peach - The Period Preacher - sat down as part of a conversation about Apple’s cycle tracking features to debunk some of the more common myths and leave those who menstruate empowered to ask the bigger questions.
Myth: Periods sync when you are around other women for long periods of time
According to Dr Harris, if you ask a group of women, most of them would say that the more time they spend together, their periods start to sync. But that might not actually be the case.
“Travelling with sporting teams, going onto camps, living with housemates or partners – anecdotally it happens. We don’t have research around why it might happen though. Unfortunately, this is the same for many topics around women and girls – the research hasn’t been done.” Read More…
