Tuesday, November 13: Menstrual cycle

Lectures #17

• Hormones of menstrual cycle
• Introduction to digestive system
  

Slides

• Lecture 17 slides  

• Menstrual cycle:  4th edition: 735-743; 3rd ed: 722-729

Optional reading - recent research

• Women's fertile days are highly unpredictable  Nov 2000 study says forget the calendar method

Optional reading - health issues

• PMS: Sorting fact from fiction from PDR Family Guide to Women's Health
• Using foods against menstrual pain from Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine, with a somewhat vegetarian agenda
• Special health concerns of women from the Columbia University Complete Home Medical Guide
• Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health, an online museum.  More than you ever wanted to know on the topic, a bit wordy