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The Four Phases of the Menstrual Cycle

The Period Party

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The Role of Hormonal Juggling in Menstrual Cycles

Each month, your body is capable of making a mini-endocrine gland in under 24 hours. If there is no pregnancy, the corpus luteum function begins to decline about nine to 11 days after ovulation. The drop in estrogen and progesterone that follows will tell the uterine lining it's time to go. You start another cycle with the first day of your next period.

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