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Women’s Menstrual Cycles May Have Once Been Synced With The Moon, But Artificial Light Has Disrupted That

It was once a commonly held belief that women's menstrual cycles were linked to the moon's cycles, a theory that researchers from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) think is highly likely.
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Why women’s periods once synced with the moon — and what changed

New research reveals that while artificial light has dimmed the moon’s influence on menstruation, women’s cycles continue to follow lunar gravity during powerful seasonal alignments. Study: ...