#357: Nicky Keay, MB BChir – Female Athletes: Hormones, Energy Availability & the Menstrual Cycle

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🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Nicky Keay is a medical doctor (MB BChir, MRCP) with specific training in endocrinology. She has published related to female athlete hormone profiling, energy availability, and relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S).

As a Research Fellow at St Thomas’ Hospital, she was part of the international medical team which developed an anti-doping test for growth hormone.

Dr. Keay studied medicine at Cambridge University, gained membership of the Royal College of Physicians, and trained in endocrinology.

Dr. Keay is currently an Honoray Fellow at Durham Universty in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. My name is Danny Lennon. This is episode 357 of the podcast. You're very welcome and thank you for listening into the podcast again today.
0:27.6	If this is your first time listening, I hope you enjoy the episode and if you do, make sure to hit subscribe on whatever app you're currently listening on.
0:36.6	And for anyone listening
0:39.2	if you do find this particularly informative or useful i'd very much appreciate it if you share
0:43.8	this around somewhere either that to your instagram story to a facebook group whatever it is tell
0:49.9	someone else about it that's all very helpful So please consider doing that if you find this
0:55.2	information useful. And so my guest on today's episode is Dr. Nikki Kay, who is a medical doctor
1:02.5	with specific training in endocrinology, who has published a number of papers looking at what can
1:09.3	influence the hormonal profile of female athletes,
1:12.9	looking at the role of energy availability, how that may manifest in something like Reds,
1:18.6	and looking at the menstrual cycle, how that can have implications for injury risk and performance
1:24.2	in female athletes. And so I think this will be an episode many of you may find
1:29.3	incredibly useful. If you wish to get the show notes to today's episode, you can do that over at
1:35.7	sigmautrition.com slash episode 357. There I will link up to any research we mentioned today, any other
1:43.9	resources that may be relevant to
1:45.8	today's episode, as well as a transcript to this and previous episodes of the podcast.
1:50.8	So that's sigmautrition.com slash episode 357.
1:55.5	And as I said, if you enjoy this episode, please consider sharing it.
1:59.4	So with that, let me introduce Dr. Nikki Kaye.
2:06.6	Nikki, welcome to the podcast.
2:08.1	Thank you so much for taking the time to come on and talk to me.
2:11.1	Well, listen, thanks so much for the invitation.
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