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"Have you ever yawned through a meeting at work, wishing you could be more engaged and involved and, um, actually remember what your boss told you to do? Researchers are now telling us that women may struggle with memory issues at a certain time of their monthly cycles... Does it take a thousand sticky notes to remind yourself to do one task at work? (Hopefully not!) If you&amp;#x27;re having trouble concentrating at certain times in the month, blame your hormones, say researchers from Concordia University. Their study, published in a recent issue of the journal Brain and Cognition, found that high estrogen levels, which normally peak around the time of ovulation, may be to blame for feelings of distraction or inability to concentrate. You normally ovulate about two weeks before you get your period on any given month, so it would be interesting to study your patterns and see if the research is true in your life, wouldn&amp;#x27;t it? Have you linked hormonal fluctuations with concentration or memory issues? More reading: *What&amp;#x27;s your personality type? Could you be a type &amp;quot;D&amp;quot; for distressed? *Phobias: What one thing freaks you out? Here&amp;#x27;s mine... *Do you have a sister? The amazing thing she can do for your health! More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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