Meryl Horne

Great.

she saw that, yeah, there was something there.

So in this group of 22 women, they were more likely to start their periods either around the time of a full moon, like especially the days leading up to a full moon, or the new moon.

How curious.

But like, I'm one of these people who does not think this is true for me.

So I asked, how strong of an effect was it?

Since I was curious, I looked at my data for the past few months, and it definitely was not sinking to the full moon.

So, yeah, I mean, obviously, it's not like everyone's getting their periods on the full moon.

It's more like it upped your chances a little bit that you'd get your period on either a full moon or a new moon.

But there's something else that I need to tell you about her study.

So, after it came out in 2021...

all these other women start sending Charlotte their calendars.

They're like when they got their period.

So then she got data from more than 100 other people, and she tried crunching the numbers again, and here's what happened.

I mean, Charlotte still thinks there could be something here.

Like, she's been looking into whether light pollution is a factor.

But she also pointed me to some other data.

Like, okay, so there's an analysis that came out recently from a period tracking app.

And it looked at seven and a half million cycles.

And they didn't see any sinking to the moon whatsoever.