Don Kardong

The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.

American Athlete

Gloria Steinem

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

American Activist

Josefina Vazquez Mota

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

Mexican Politician

Radhika Apte

As we know, menstrual hygiene is an issue women have been facing over the years. It's great that the initiative to provide low-cost sanitary napkins has been undertaken. It is an empowering step for many women.

Indian Actress

Helen Fisher

Women have a better sense of smell than men do, and it's even sharper in the middle of their menstrual cycle, when estrogen levels peak and women are more likely to be deciding whether a man's attractive.

American Scientist

Shabana Azmi

Women's health is not a niche issue - it impacts everyone in some way. That is why a collective effort to improve awareness and understanding of menstrual hygiene is key to closing the gender health gap.

Carol P. Christ

Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.

Educator

Emma Hayes

Understanding the menstrual cycle is just one part of the holistic understanding you need to have of your footballers in order to help them prepare.

English Businesswoman

Arunachalam Muruganantham

The government should include menstrual hygiene in the curriculum.

Indian Businessman

Manushi Chhillar

My project for menstrual hygiene is about empowering girls.

Indian Model

Understand 'menstrual' refers to a natural, biological process that occurs in the female body.

Biological Process

'Menstrual' often implies a regular, monthly interval as part of the reproductive cycle.

Regular Interval

Discussions on 'menstrual' topics may be private or sensitive; be mindful of cultural norms.

Sensitive Topic

 Once implanted, the cells that are to become the placenta secrete a hormone that signals to the ovulated follicle that there is a pregnancy in the uterus. This helps rescue that follicle, now called the corpus luteum, from degenerating as it normally would do in that stage of the menstrual cycle.

How in vitro fertilizatio...

 that make the hormones like estrogen and progesterone together with the O site or we can actually have the entire ovary there and that allows us to control the hormones over a 28-day menstrual cycle in a box so understanding how the uterus responds to hormones is really important

Artificial Female...

 all natural, biological processes -- why should menstruation be off-limits? And you, too, can help make it less taboo, simply by being more open with male friends and family members, supporting local and international organizations working to improve menstrual hygiene management,

A campaign for period...

 Women and their bodies are unique, after all. Menstrual cycles occur at diffferent times in the month, ovulation comes at various points in the cycle, and some periods last longer than others. Menstruation even begins and ends at different times in life for different women, too.

How menstruation works -...

 Second, if you're pre-menopausal, try to schedule your mammogram in the first two weeks of your menstrual cycle, when breast density is relatively lower. Third, if you notice a persistent change in your breast, insist on additional imaging. And fourth and most important,

Deborah Rhodes: A tool...

 A handful of species on Earth share a seemingly mysterious a menstrual cycle. We're one of the select few. Monkeys, apes, bats, humans, and possibly elephant shrews are the only mammals on Earth that menstruate. We also do it more than any other animal,

Why do women have...

 and humans are among the only species on the planet where the female is available for sex throughout the menstrual cycle, whether she's menstruating, whether she's post-menopausal, whether she's already pregnant. This is vanishingly rare among mammals.

Are we sexual omnivores?...

 She said that schools days are missed every month by young girls because of their menstrual cycle, and they're not able to buy a sanitary towel. And the reason that she described was that the manufacturers packaged these in bundles of seven to 10,

Success stories from...

 have come together and taken this menstrual awareness drive to their own communities, have made sure that the girls learn about periods at the right age and helped in breaking this taboo. I dream of a future where menstruation is not a curse,

A taboo-free way to talk...

 It shouldn't be an act of feminism to ask for help when you're suffering. The era of menstrual taboos is over.