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Women's Periods Dont Hurt

  • 19-10-2012 2:47pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭


    New studies suggest that cramping due to the female mentrual cycle is nothing more than a "placebo-like effect".
    Prof. Robert Austin from the Department of Biology in The Boston College, Boston, MA. may be about to single-handedly put an end to the popular complaint women have during their monthly menstrual cycle.

    The common conception (no pun-intended) women have regarding their cramps is that It could be because you have higher levels of prostaglandins which make the muscles in your womb (uterus) contract harder or faster. Or because the blood supply to your womb (uterus) decreases during the contractions so there's less oxygen reaching this part of your body, making the muscles cramp even more.

    During the three-year-long study, however (to be published in next month's Health Journal)Prof. Austin apparently discovered a mysterious unknown hormone which is now being linked to having a "placebo-like-effect" on the brain.
    Which means that women are not actually experiencing pain and discomfort, rather they are experiencing the placebo effect. They "feel" pain because they believe that pain is to be expected with their period.

    Prof. Austin will be releasing his new found results next month. This will once and for all end men's monthly missery.

    Author: Jim McGarren,
    ScienceHealthDaily.com




    Posted this on my facebook page and getting a great kick out of the women that believe it :D


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Prof. Robert Austin?
    Let Mrs Austin do the study instead...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭IITYWYBMAD


    biko wrote: »
    Prof. Robert Austin?
    Let Mrs Austin do the study instead...

    In your rags?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    Must be a pretty good placebo effect to bring me to the point of almost fainting on more than one occasion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    Just as I suspected. The basis of the word hysterical explains all


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    Ah yeah but everybody knows that women will be quite biased when it comes to this kind of research.


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I would love to see Prof. Austin explain this to my ladyfriend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    Punch him in the stomach and tell him he's not really experiencing pain, he's just imagining it...

    I dunno about others but my cramps can happen at any time up to and during my period. I don't just go, "oh, I've my period! Must start cramping now..."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 408 ✭✭PC CDROM


    In my experience it hurts both women and their partners.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    This should clear it up for us guys



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    sup_dude wrote: »
    Punch him in the stomach and tell him he's not really experiencing pain, he's just imagining it...

    I dunno about others but my cramps can happen at any time up to and during my period. I don't just go, "oh, I've my period! Must start cramping now..."

    Of course not dear. That's why it's psychological


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    Oh good god.
    I don't even...
    Eh, yeah, sure Robert, whatever you say.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 967 ✭✭✭HeyThereDeliah


    This thread will be like a red rag to a bull for some posters on here.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    In before the horde of angry wimmins...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    Of course not dear. That's why it's psychological

    Alright then, I don't think "Oh, I've my period, I must start cramping" :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Ladies; Accept the SCIENCE and stop whinging!!!





    *runs away*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    stevenmu wrote: »
    In before the horde of angry wimmins...

    And their metro male friends namby-pamby cohorts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    stevenmu wrote: »
    In before the horde of angry wimmins...

    Only if it is that time of the month :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    So Prof. Robert Austin claims a woman's period pain doesn't exist. What next? Will Mrs Austin claim that men's 'morn horn' is only an illusion?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,255 ✭✭✭✭Esoteric_


    Tell that to my ovarian cysts. :rolleyes:


    Even if it's just the stress or whatever causing the muscles to contract faster, that in turn causes pain so either way, it hurts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    You should all read the last line, there.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭Ella


    Yeah it's all an act. I dont get cramps so bad i want to die. The pain in my lower back is also put on. I do it all for attention.

    The feeling that someone is using my ovaries as a stress ball is totally in my head. And sure i stick fake spots on my face at that time of the month too just for the craic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 pinkpetal


    His findings are bollox.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    You should all read the last line, there.

    Ha :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Posted this on my facebook page and getting a great kick out of the women that believe it :D
    You should all read the last line, there.
    Damn, learns me for reading too fast.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,255 ✭✭✭✭Esoteric_


    Whoops, just read the last line.

    I guess that shows just how many of us read the first part and saw red (no pun intended).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 967 ✭✭✭HeyThereDeliah


    New studies suggest that cramping due to the female mentrual cycle is nothing more than a "placebo-like effect".
    Prof. Robert Austin from the Department of Biology in The Boston College, Boston, MA. may be about to single-handedly put an end to the popular complaint women have during their monthly menstrual cycle.

    The common conception (no pun-intended) women have regarding their cramps is that It could be because you have higher levels of prostaglandins which make the muscles in your womb (uterus) contract harder or faster. Or because the blood supply to your womb (uterus) decreases during the contractions so there's less oxygen reaching this part of your body, making the muscles cramp even more.

    During the three-year-long study, however (to be published in next month's Health Journal)Prof. Austin apparently discovered a mysterious unknown hormone which is now being linked to having a "placebo-like-effect" on the brain.
    Which means that women are not actually experiencing pain and discomfort, rather they are experiencing the placebo effect. They "feel" pain because they believe that pain is to be expected with their period.

    Prof. Austin will be releasing his new found results next month. This will once and for all end men's monthly missery.

    Author: Jim McGarren,
    ScienceHealthDaily.com




    Posted this on my facebook page and getting a great kick out of the women that believe it :D

    I really like this line. Lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Prof. Joe, of Boards University, is going to conduct a study about how more than 97% of AH users don't fully read any post, and that more than 89% do not know Google exists.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The only way you're getting of of being branded a troll is by PMing me a link to this "study"


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