Posted on 10/19/2023 8:03:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The microstructure of white matter – the fatty network of neuronal fibers that transfer information between regions of gray matter – has been found to change with hormonal shifts, including puberty, oral contraception use, gender-affirming hormone therapy, and post-menopausal estrogen therapy.
To address the menstruation gap in our understanding, the team took MRI scans of their subjects during three menstrual phases: menses, ovulation, and mid-luteal. At the time of each of these scans, the researchers also measured the participants' hormone levels.
The results showed that, as hormones fluctuate, gray and white matter volumes change too, as does the volume of cerebrospinal fluid.
In particular, just before ovulation, when the hormones 17β-estradiol and luteinizing hormone rise, the brains of the participants showed white matter changes suggesting faster information transfer.
Follicle-stimulating hormone, which rises before ovulation, and helps stimulate the ovary follicles, was associated with thicker gray matter.
Progesterone, which decreases after ovulation, was associated with increased tissue and decreased cerebrospinal fluid volume.
What this means for the person driving the brain is unknown, but the research lays the groundwork for future studies, and perhaps understanding the causes of unusual but severe period-related mental health problems.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
The cavemen knew this, c’mon.
Too late!! Expect incoming from every lady Freeper asking you..just what did you mean about your statement!!
Poor fellow...I’ll pray for you!
This is why the Bible seperates the women from the men during that time of the month,,,
I celebrated 37 years worth of my own “personal study” on this topic last night. During this study I was able to observe My mother, my mother in law, my wife, my sister, and two daughters as they navigated this every 28 days or so.
I could have saved these researchers a lot of time.
Yet another study they could have just saved the time and money and ask any guy on the street about brain changes during his gal’s period......
Would you trust a car that lost a quart of oil every month???
Yes, if the God made it that way, but He didn’t, did He? He did, however, design a man and a woman in his own image and I appreciate that.
Would you trust a car that lost a quart of oil every month???
Yes, if the God made it that way, but He didn’t, did He? He did, however, design a man and a woman in his own image and I appreciate that.
My husband is an American Indian. He has always maintained that menstruating women are very powerful, and not to be taken lightly. Apparently this is an Indian belief.
My husband is an American Indian. He has always maintained that menstruating women are very powerful, and not to be taken lightly. Apparently this is an Indian belief.
Rush Limbaugh believed it too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahPwlOOKedg
bkmk
For the first time,scientists show structural Bitch-Wide
Changes during menstruation.
There fixed it.
Never trust anything that bleeds for a week and doesn’t die…to be emotionally stable.
I’ve been married long enough to say what I want to and not give a damn about the results.
Been married 3 times. Potawatomi, Choctaw, and Cherokee women. I was usually scared for my life every 28 days.
And I’m 1/32 Haudenausani
Well duh. Personality changes occur then. Who doesn’t know that?
40+ years of marriage and I could have told you that without dropping big money for this.
+1…..
“However, although it is something that happens to half the world’s population for half their lives, research has been somewhat lacking. Who knows why. Total mystery. Seriously.”
Wonder what this might mean with the regard to use of BCPs...
Ah, so you are hen pecked! Sorry to inform you it shows…. I bet all your women cannot stand President Trump!
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