page_title: Seed cycling
hierarchical_section_title: Seed cycling
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Samen der Sonnenblume English: Sunflowers seeds Русский: Семечки (семя подсолнечника)
context_page_description: Seed cycling is the rotation of different edible seeds into the diet at different times in the menstrual cycle. Practitioners believe that since some seeds promote estrogen production, and others promote progesterone production, that eating these seeds in the correct parts of the menstrual cycle will balance the hormonal rhythm.
  There is no scientific evidence to support the belief that cycling the seeds actually regulates the hormonal rhythm, but the practice is probably harmless.
context_section_description: Seed cycling is the rotation of different edible seeds into the diet at different times in the menstrual cycle.  Practitioners believe that since some seeds promote estrogen production, and others promote progesterone production, that eating these seeds in the correct parts of the menstrual cycle will balance the hormonal rhythm. 
  There is no scientific evidence to support the belief that cycling the seeds actually regulates the hormonal rhythm, but the practice is probably harmless.
caption: Some women eat sunflower seeds in the second half of the menstrual cycle, in the hope that it will change their hormone levels.
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