About Your Body

What ~is~ your period?

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Welcome back to About Your Body! Let's break down the complexities of the human body in simple language. In today's episode: what IS your period? Why do you get one? Here is a straight-forward explanation of why your body makes you bleed every month.

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SOURCES:

  1. Hill, S. E. (2019). How the Pill Changes Everything: Your Brain on Birth Control. United Kingdom: Orion.
  2. Ameer MA, Fagan SE, Sosa-Stanley JN, et al. Anatomy, Abdomen and Pelvis: Uterus. [Updated 2022 Dec 6]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470297/
  3. The Ovarian Cycle, the Menstrual Cycle, and Menopause. (n.d.). Lumen Learning. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-biology2/chapter/the-ovarian-cycle-the-menstrual-cycle-and-menopause/. Accessed 31st March 2024.
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