216 Fueling and Nutrition for the Female Athlete - Part 2- with Kyla Channell and Stevie Lyn Smith
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Matt welcomes back Kyla Channell and Stevie Lyn Smith, for Part 2 of a discussion around nutrition for female athletes and fitness enthusiasts. Part 1 is HERE.
Both Stevie and Kyla bring with them a wealth of expertise, passion, and decades of experience in this particular area of fueling for the female.
Stevie Lyn Smith, MS, RDN, CSSD, CDN, is one of the lead dieticians with our partner, InsideTracker. She's an experienced Registered Dietitian, board-certified in Sports Nutrition, with a history of working with both individuals and groups in clinical settings. She is wonderfully skilled in sports nutrition, weight management, and, through her work at InsideTracker, brings a great backbone of understanding biomarkers as a tool to help people focus and hone in their nutrition needs.
Kyla Channell, MS Nutrition & Human Performance, is also the owner and founder of Nutritional Revolution, where she specializes in elite athlete fueling for each unique sport and sex differences between athletes. She is a longtime nutrition partner of Purple Patch and has worked with countless athletes of all levels from beginner to pro.
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0:00-012:30 Introduction and Matt's Personal Picks
Purple Patch Blog -How to Turn Stress into an Advantage
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12:40- The Meat and Potatoes - Fueling for the Female Athlete and Fitness Enthusiast, Part 2
Matt, Kyla, and Stevie provide guidance on:
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Definitions and distinctions between oligomenorrhea and amenorrhea
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Are these symptoms exclusive to women with eating disorders, or is it more broad than that?
"Many times, we'll see the loss of a menstrual cycle or just irregular cycles in our endurance athletes because there is an energy deficit to some extent, and that could be unintentional, meaning maybe they're in a bigger training block and they're pushing out a ton of calories to hit longer sessions, harder efforts, etc. But they're not matching the the energy intake."
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The (unintended) difficulties women often feel with not fueling enough based on training load and intensities
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Why these are often red flags and symptoms of greater problems
"Anytime we're getting irregular cycles or losing the cycle for a period of time, it does result in low estrogen and that's a big player in our bone health, of course, among many other physiological functioning things we need going on in the body."
- What biomarkers or blood test results can be used to identify potential red flags in overall female health and performance?
"I've never seen an athlete with overtraining and overreaching, who doesn't have elevated cortisol levels."
- Consequences of low energy availability on both health and performance
"Our strength might decline, we might hit the wall a little bit faster, because again, we don't have those carbs on board. So glycogen stores are inadequate. This increases our risk for injury, you might notice more things like depression or lack of motivation to train, and you might feel a little bit more irritable."
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Actions for an athlete if they are experiencing elevated stress and biomarker levels?
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How to help female athletes who have a fear of carbohydrates and clean-eating obsession
"Starting small, getting those wins, making the person feel comfortable, and working on helping them trust their bodies a little bit more."
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Ways to provide validation and proof of success when eating for performance
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Impacts of birth control on female athletic performance
"We might have a harder time recovering from training sessions. We might have a decreased drive to hydrate, right? Being dehydrated absolutely can impact our performance. Some people notice more regular sleep disturbances, or even slight weight gain water retention."
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Why there is such a negative connotation around perimenopause and menopause and advice on working with this life change.
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How to vet a reliable coach or nutritionist in your quest for health and performance improvement
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and |
| 0:05.8 | educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, |
| 0:11.2 | you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere |
| 0:17.2 | integrate sport into life. All right folks, Matt Dixon here and we've got a cracker |
| 0:23.3 | for you today but just before we get going I want to make a couple of points. The first is that |
| 0:27.7 | over the last few weeks we've pushed out what I feel is some really important educational |
| 0:32.3 | content that I know is going to help a lot of folk. We've got today's show, which is part two of our nutrition |
| 0:38.7 | and health for female athletes. Last week's blog and podcast on how to turn stress into your |
| 0:45.3 | advantage, and of course even the guide to helping triathletes with a smart approach to running off the |
| 0:50.6 | bike. And we do this because we love providing educational content. We want more |
| 0:55.7 | and more folks to be able to learn and benefit. And you, as a loyal listener and follower of Purple Patch, |
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| 1:35.1 | send it across to folks that you feel might benefit. And of course, when you do that, |
| 1:39.6 | remind them to follow along as well, either via our newsletter or, of course, on the podcast. I promise |
| 1:45.2 | you it really, really helps and it empowers our efforts. And I'll tell you what, I and all |
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