Updates on Female Athlete Nutrition with Dr. Stacy Sims - Ep. #122

Inside Sports Nutrition

Dr. Stacy Sims, researcher, scientist, and exercise physiologist, returns to the show to provide updates on various topics related to female athlete nutrition.

Topics discussed include:

• The need for cultural and social research on perceptions about the menstrual cycle and menstrual bleeding
• Important nuances around menstrual cycle training
• Updates in supplement research for women
• Perspectives on nutrition for transgendered athletes
• Insights on young female athletes
• Oral contraceptive use in youth and collegiate female athletes
• Protein and amino acid needs for female athletes
• Wearable devices and use of data for women

Links:

• Voice in Sport
• Dr. Kathryn Ackerman
• Dr. Stacy Sims website
• 2nd edition of ROAR book
• Next Level book

Quotes from Dr. Sims:

“The best advice we have about menstrual cycle training is you need to track your own cycle and find your own pattern.”

“It is disempowering women when we have these voices coming out saying there is no effect of the menstrual cycle based on a very small criteria of systematic reviews.”

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