Well for the most part
with cycling women, their hormones are gonna be at different place in the cycle.
The authors also speculate that the use of oral contraceptives may influence a woman's ability to attract a mate by reducing attractiveness to men, thereby disrupting her ability to compete with
normally cycling women for access to mate.
5 Amico, J., and Finley, B., Breast stimulation
in cycling women, pregnant women and a woman with induced lactation: pattern of release of oxytocin, prolactin and luteinizing hormone.
Some specific phenotypes
for cycling women and / or menopausal women that - that will help with even some of those symptoms of the receptor site level, depending if we have a cycling or a menopausal issue.
When your progesterone divided by estradiol in the mid-luteal phase (approximately day 21 in a
regularly cycling woman) is less than 100, you have a condition called estrogen dominance.
The breast tissue of normally
cycling women contains three identifiable types of lobules: the previously described Lob 1, and the more developed Lobules type 2 (Lob 2) and Lobules type 3 (Lob 3)[21 — 23].
In particular, naturally
cycling women experience male preference shift throughout their menstrual cycle that helps them obtain resources relevant to their current fertility status (fertile versus infertile).
Naturally
cycling women find different types of men sexy depending upon where they are in their cycle; when they are ovulating, they report greater attraction to «manly» men (i.e., guys with deep voices and chiseled faces).1 In other words, ovulating women are likely to find George Clooney and James Bond - type men especially hot.
Estrone, which constitutes ~ 33 % of circulating estrogens
in cycling women (compared to 44 % for estradiol and 10 % for estriol) 19, is the most abundant estrogen in postmenopausal women, especially those with a high percentage of adipose tissue (including apparently «lean» women with sarcopenia).
The result of this is that women on the pill ultimately seem to pick partners who are more reliable and their relationships tend to last longer than those of
naturally cycling women.2 Score one for the pill.
The risk for high frequency headache, or more than 10 days with headache per month, increased by 60 percent in middle - aged women with migraine during the perimenopause — the transitional period into menopause marked by irregular menstrual cycles — as compared to normally
cycling women, says Martin, the study's lead author.
One thing we have gleaned over the years is that during the luteal phase of
the cycle women tend to utilized carbohydrates less and fat more.
The cleaner your lifestyle, the little to
no cycle a woman may experience.
As far as female hormones though —
a cycling woman should do a «female cycle map» in which saliva samples are taken throughout your cycle in order to see how your hormones measure throughout your entire cycle as opposed to just one day of your cycle.
In particular, normally
cycling women (women who are not using contraceptive agents) tend to rate men with dissimilar immune system as more physically attractive, whereas women using contraceptive pills tend to rate men with similar immune system as more physically attractive2.
In fact, women on the pill report less attraction to their partners as well as less sexual satisfaction compared to naturally
cycling women.2 This is not to say that women on the pill are necessarily having «bad» sex, as several media outlets have erroneously reported (see here or here for incorrect characterizations of this research).
Naturally
cycling women (i.e., non-pill users) paid more attention to status symbols (e.g., sports cars, mansions) when they were ovulating compared to other times of their cycles.
Women on the pill are, on balance, more satisfied than unsatisfied — they just do not report having sex that is quite as good as naturally
cycling women.