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For reasons not yet fully understood the moon has huge influence on the menstrual cycle.The moon circles the Earth every 28 1/2 days approximately and many fertile women mimic this periodicity between their cycles. Not all women follow this pattern but it has been shown that when women gather together for long periods of time, such as in prison, their menstrual cycles start to synchronise with one another.

The moon obviously causes the tides in the sea and the land is also raised by the moon's passage over it. Some people with mental problems are also be more agitated at periods of the full moon. This is why the old word for mental problem is lunacy. Animals too are probably more affected than we realise for example coral reefs synchronise their spawning at certain phases of the moon as do Horseshoe crabs in California.

I am by no means an expert but we ignore our evolutionary past at our own cost. We believe we are past all that but we are certainly not!

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The moon cycle operates as a calendar. Recording the shape of the moon during the menstruation period enable a female to calculate her fertility period, when the moon will be in the inverse position.

Such knowledge enable the female to select a dominant male to be the father of her offspring, even when having a monogamous relation with an inferior mate. Such a practice was observed in a colony of Blue Footed Boobies. The dominant male treated the females and the youngsters as his own. The group was enriched by stronger members relative to offspring of inferior males and relative to other groups who did not practice such behavior.

In order to gain this evolutionary advantage the calendar was to be accurate, and by natural selection the moon cycle became the basis of the menstruation cycle of 29.5 days, and the gene pool of a female with longer or shorter cycle perished.

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