Is Your Body Out of Sync With a Man’s World?

In a video Anna Trimble recently uploaded to TikTok, she tosses two pillows onto a beige couch and snuggles up under a blanket for a nap. “Lord have mercy,” the voice-over intones. “Today drained me.” Trimble overlaid the video with text: “me in my luteal phase after doing absolutely nothing all day.”

Trimble, a 29-year-old who works in finance and lives outside Philadelphia, runs her life according to a calendar dictated by her menstrual cycle. She’s a devotee of cycle syncing, a set of practices that involves tailoring day-to-day activities to this biological rhythm. She schedules intensive workouts and creative brainstorming sessions to coincide with hormonal peaks, for example, while valleys call for lighter fitness sessions and projects.

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