Importance of the female circadian rhythm

Look to daily circadian rhythms for the origins of all other endocrine rhythms

Female and make sex hormones both depend on daily light cues so they can be released on time in the morning at the end of the rest cycle.

Dear social media influencers: please stop saying women don’t have a 24 hour cycle.

I can believe there may be some well-intentioned people who have picked up on this meme of men = daily and women = monthly, and just don’t realize

a) how incorrect it is because they probably just heard it and thought it made sense

b) what a huge detriment it is for women to neglect their daily circadian health or for men to neglect their longer term cycles

In this post, I’m going to dig in on this concept and show that women do indeed have daily cycles that they must tend if they want to have a healthy monthly rhythm.

My relationship to the idea of men being daily and women being monthly

I use…