Birth Control and Female Athletic Performance | Victoria Felkar

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Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Medicine, Science, Health & Fitness, Life Sciences

4.6 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Victoria Felkar is a doctoral candidate conducting interdisciplinary research on women’s health, reproductive function, and pharmaceutical steroid hormones. Her work offers a novel and critical perspective into the use of drugs for health and performance purposes within the female athlete population. Victoria’s research has achieved international awards and accolades within the academic field. Beyond academia, Victoria is an internationally respected educator and consultant within the fitness, bodybuilding, and strength sector. Her unique multidisciplinary background has provided the perfect platform for pioneering work in athlete-centered coaching methods, integrated health-performance methods, and female athlete health. For the past 12 years, she has worked with a wide range of individuals and organizations, including top-level athletes and competitors, special populations, health professionals, and strength coaches, and has lectured at events worldwide.

In this episode we discuss:

Why humans are horrible for research.
The major issues with birth control & contraceptives.
What causes menstrual dysfunction?
Why banned substances in sports is a joke.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dr. Gabriel Lyon Show, where I believe a healthy world is based on transparent
0:08.5	conversations.
0:14.2	In today's episode of the Dr. Gabriel Lion Show, I sit down with a beautiful and articulate
0:20.4	Victoria Felcar. She is an instructor,
0:23.9	an internationally renowned junior scholar, which she is currently completing her doctoral studies
0:29.7	at the University of British Columbia. Why did I have Victoria on? Because she holds a very
0:34.5	unique position in the space. She's a social and cultural sport historian
0:39.6	with a special interest in physical culture performance enhancement, and her research has achieved
0:45.5	international publication and award. Essentially, Victoria combines the history of what we are talking
0:52.6	about as it relates to male-female hormonal manipulation
0:56.6	and the study of social ethics.
1:00.2	She combines them, which makes the podcast so fascinating to hear the scientific aspect as well as the social
1:09.4	cultural aspect.
1:14.6	We discuss, should women take oral contraceptives? What have we gotten wrong about the use of female hormones? And finally, strategies to optimize
1:20.6	hormones for athletic performance. I strongly suggest that you take a moment to rate and
1:27.3	subscribe to the podcast.
1:29.5	If you love this episode, share it.
1:32.2	And I'd love to highlight that with the new availability to pre-order my book Forever
1:38.9	Strong, you can get it on Amazon, you can go to my website, that there are communities
1:43.7	that we have put in place for you so that you can go to my website, that there are communities that we have put in place
1:45.0	for you so that you can actually be involved in Q&A with experts like Victoria.
1:52.2	So head on over to Amazon or my website to pre-order the book Forever Strong, which goes on
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