Reading Time: 10 minutesEvery month, women get a front row seat reminder of how much their body changes. Many of those monthly changes are related to our menstrual cycle and period. And as we get older, it may seem like we know everything we need to know about how our body changes during our periods. Especially since we’ve been having one each month starting in our teens.

But the truth is, we may not know everything because our menstrual cycle and period changes as we age.

Your age can have a major impact on your menstrual cycle and your periods – how long your periods will last and even how heavy your flow will be. This is thanks, in part, to normal age-related hormonal changes.

Learning about why certain changes happen will help you prepare to deal with them.

Read on to find out how your period changes as you age starting from your tweens and teens, into your 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond.