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There has certainly been a change in the onset of young female Menstruation. I remember the early 70's at school and most girls started their periods around 15

by reify 2y ago

There has certainly been a change in the onset of young female Menstruation. I remember the early 70's at school and most girls started their periods around 15-16 years old. During my post graduate training as a play therapist in 2002 the entire class were shocked to here that girls as young as eight were now starting their periods and puberty was starting earlier. In fact, girls in general were developing physically and psycholically much quicker than over 30 years ago. There are no clear answers as to why this is happening. Maybe its to do with external forces such as; diet, environmental changes, chemicals in our clothing, food and water. Maybe nature has a hand in this but I can see no reason why nature would want an eight year old to menstrate.

rightbyte 2y ago
> Maybe its to do with external forces such as; diet, environmental changes, chemicals in our clothing, food and water. There are alot of factors to be sure. Some plastics are know to disturb hormome balance. Men have gotten fewer sperms too. Just like those fringe tinfoil hats that said corps gonna spy on us if we give them the means and power to do that, I'll guess I'm going to wake up one day to find out and these environmentalist crackpots blabbering about "natural" food and materials have been right all along. I mean, processed food is just ordinary food from a big kitchen.
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- ThunderSizzle 2y ago
  Don't forget the birth control pill. We don't have a great way to remove its residue from the water supply last I read, so that's being constantly mixed in as more and more women try to avoid pregnancy. I find it odd that it hasn't been mentioned in these comments, since its an obvious contender in the problem space, given that a women's cycle is almost entirely based on their hormones, and the pill affects their hormones.
  - rightbyte 2y ago
    Do you mean indirect exposure to children? The waste amount should be a homeopatic dose compared to ingesting the pill? But maybe there is like a compound effect even in really small doses mixed in with all the other chemicals. Or maybe children conceived after being off the pills for a short while are affected.
    - ThunderSizzle 2y ago
      How many women have been on the pill and for how long? It's a compounding effect on itself as it's not recycled out of drinking water sufficiently, and level have been increasing, especially considering how little is required to mess with female cycles.
garciasn 2y ago
“If someone is showing signs of puberty before age eight they should talk to their doctor about it, and if they haven’t had a period by age 15 they should also talk to their doctor about it,” she said." Are you sure that MOST started at 15-16? Because the article also says: "They found that women born in the oldest bracket, between 1950-1969, got their period at 12.5 years old on average, compared to 11.9 years old for the youngest group, born between 2000-2005." Neither of these two pieces from the article support your anecdotal notes.

by reify 2y ago

rightbyte 2y ago

> Maybe its to do with external forces such as; diet, environmental changes, chemicals in our clothing, food and water. There are alot of factors to be sure. Some plastics are know to disturb hormome balance. Men have gotten fewer sperms too. Just like those fringe tinfoil hats that said corps gonna spy on us if we give them the means and power to do that, I'll guess I'm going to wake up one day to find out and these environmentalist crackpots blabbering about "natural" food and materials have been right all along. I mean, processed food is just ordinary food from a big kitchen.

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ThunderSizzle 2y ago
Don't forget the birth control pill. We don't have a great way to remove its residue from the water supply last I read, so that's being constantly mixed in as more and more women try to avoid pregnancy. I find it odd that it hasn't been mentioned in these comments, since its an obvious contender in the problem space, given that a women's cycle is almost entirely based on their hormones, and the pill affects their hormones.
- rightbyte 2y ago
  Do you mean indirect exposure to children? The waste amount should be a homeopatic dose compared to ingesting the pill? But maybe there is like a compound effect even in really small doses mixed in with all the other chemicals. Or maybe children conceived after being off the pills for a short while are affected.
  - ThunderSizzle 2y ago
    How many women have been on the pill and for how long? It's a compounding effect on itself as it's not recycled out of drinking water sufficiently, and level have been increasing, especially considering how little is required to mess with female cycles.

garciasn 2y ago

“If someone is showing signs of puberty before age eight they should talk to their doctor about it, and if they haven’t had a period by age 15 they should also talk to their doctor about it,” she said." Are you sure that MOST started at 15-16? Because the article also says: "They found that women born in the oldest bracket, between 1950-1969, got their period at 12.5 years old on average, compared to 11.9 years old for the youngest group, born between 2000-2005." Neither of these two pieces from the article support your anecdotal notes.