Can Psychedelics Bring on Your Menstrual Period?

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Right before my first ayahuasca ceremony, one of the facilitators told us that the substance can bring on the “moontime,” AKA your period. If you’re very sensitive to it, there’s a chance that repeated psychedelic use might cause hormonal disruption, says Giordano. At the time, I was dealing with a number of health issues, and my period was all over the place. Even as my period became more regular over time, I noticed that psychedelics sometimes seemed to bring it on early, whether I was microdosing mushrooms at home or had just come back from a 5 MEO DMT ceremony. But in general, it’s not something to worry about — just one of the many mysteries of psychedelics that we can ponder and revel in.

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Right before my first ayahuasca ceremony, one of the facilitators told us that the substance can bring on the “moontime,” AKA your period. 

At the time, I was dealing with a number of health issues, and my period was all over the place. I’d often go two, three, or even four months without getting it, and it would come on with no rhyme or reason. 

I did not get my period during that ceremony, but about a year later during an iboga ceremony, after only about a month since my last period (it was...

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