At least once in our life we had this experience. Probably when we were a member of a woman’s team, or if we had daily contact with our best friend, maybe if we shared a dorm with other women and at one point our period synced.
What a universal coincidence, imagine how close we are that even our period got synchronized. Right? Wrong, because science is ambivalent.
It all started when researcher Martha McClintock conducted a research to college girls living at the dorm. Her conclusion was that the girls’ social interactions may affect their cycle. Her research in fact was published in the science magazine Nature in 1971. Another research, conducted in 1998 seems to support this theory. Pheromones are responsible for everything; they play a major role in the communication between members of the same species.
What are pheromones? They are the chemical substances that a human organism produces. In people though, communication doesn’t happen only through pheromones, so we can’t say with certainty that they are responsible for the period syncing.
The truth is that although we want to believe that woman solidarity and companionship are the reasons for a period syncing, something like that cannot be proven scientifically. There are many reasons that can affect a woman’s period, for example the food, the pace of metabolism, stress. Each woman has a different lifestyle and responses differently to stimuli. The only fact is that the cycle lasts 21 to 35 days, so it’s normal between that time span to coincide. It is a matter of timing.
Moreover, it’s not something that nature will allow. Imagine what will happen if in a small society all women have their period at the same time. It is known that in these, more or less, 7 days that period lasts, we are feeling weak and we suffer from pain and cramps. It would be really difficult to support one another. The same will happen if all of them had ovulation simultaneously and finally ending up having child at the same period.
Also, researches to animals show that this is not the case, synced period is a myth. We can make this conclusion with absolute certainty, but do we want to? Personally speaking I advocate the theory of syncing and not that it is something random. I like to think that my organism has been synchronized with another female organism. Either we talk about our colleague that we don’t get really along but we spent too many hours together, or we are talking about our best friend, our soul mate. It’s also the psychological factor, knowing that you are not alone in this. I want to believe in the romantic version which says that energies can be synchronized because they sympathize.
Myth or reality, it depends from which side you want to look at it. The scientific or the romantic one. You can either support the theory of randomness or the theory of woman’s solidarity. It is up to you.
