God has nothing to do with it. The normal age for onset of menstruation was 17 until the last quarter of the 19th Century. Then onset began earlier and earlier until today, where onset may occur as early as age 9.
The scientific community suspects that industrial pollutants are responsible for the earlier onset. It falls into the same category as the suspicion that estrogen-like chemicals in plastic containers are responsible for lower and lower sperm counts.
“The scientific community suspects that industrial pollutants are responsible for the earlier onset. It falls into the same category as the suspicion that estrogen-like chemicals in plastic containers are responsible for lower and lower sperm counts.”
Perhaps better nutrition might attribute to earlier maturity but one thing that is never mentioned and must be very prevalent is the hormones/birth control med that are released into our water supply via excretion (if some make it through the filtration system in our bodies) or being discarded-flushed down the drain. Maybe it is not an issue but I have always wondered if it might be. It makes more logic to me than other explanations. But birth control and hormone replacement are sacred cows. Similar in my mind to tobacco being vilified but marijuana being promoted. One is taboo and one is the new solution to whatever ails you and is said to be harmless. I don’t use any of those things so I am not invested. Just things I ponder.
God has nothing to do with it. The normal age for onset of menstruation was 17 until the last quarter of the 19th Century. Then onset began earlier and earlier until today, where onset may occur as early as age 9.
The scientific community suspects that industrial pollutants are responsible for the earlier onset. It falls into the same category as the suspicion that estrogen-like chemicals in plastic containers are responsible for lower and lower sperm counts.
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I was surprised to see the above. I did a quick search and several articles support that the average age of menarch varied with different eras. The later age (17) was thought to be due to times of malnutrition. Earlier, ie Roman times, average age appeared to be 13-14. At times the town girls with more to eat had earlier than the hungry peasants.
So it seems to have varied throughout what recorded history there is on this topic. The chemicals I’m sure are at play and also such chemicals do much other harm as well.
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