EP 64 Women and Anabolic Steroids, Steroid FAQs, and Being a Conscious Consumer | PT. II with Victoria Felkar
EMBody Radio
Emily Duncan
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Steroids, particularly anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS), are very popular in all sports, but particularly strength and physique sports (bodybuilding, Weightlifting, powerlifting, and Crossfit). There's a huge taboo around AAS, but an even bigger taboo surrounding women and androgen use. I'm so excited to bring you part 2 with Victoria Felkar, a researcher whose research is quite literally titled, "Women and Steroids." We're diving into that exact topic in this episode.
Today we talk about:
-Side effects of high levels of androgens in women (whether they have endogenous hyper-androgenism or they're supplementing with androgens)
-Are the side effects of high androgens permanent?
-Managing female anabolic androgenic steroid use
-Coming off of AAS
-Hormonal and systemic changes when you take androgens/systems effected when you're on androgens
-Things you need to do to regain normal health/function after using AAS
-How long does it take to regain normal health after drug use
-Is there an intelligent/"healthy" way that women can use anabolics
-Being a conscious consumer of your own health
-The ignorance surrounding women and AAS
-The anabolic:androgenic ratio and what it means
-Are your symptoms from AAS or are they something else?
-Polypharmacy in steroid use
-The purity of non-pharmaceutical AAS
-So much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Embody Radio. I'm your host Emily Duncan, |
| 0:03.3 | Kinesiology major, fitness social media influencer, coach, and bikini competitor. |
| 0:07.8 | On this show I'm here to spread scientific knowledge on the topics of |
| 0:10.8 | strength training, nutrition, health, fitness, and physique sports, |
| 0:14.0 | while also helping you grow stronger as an individual from the inside out. |
| 0:18.0 | In each episode, you'll hear from myself and some of the top professionals in the fitness and health industry. |
| 0:22.0 | Let's dive in so you can start embodying your strength. and some of the top professionals in the fitness and health industry. |
| 0:23.0 | Let's dive in so you can start embodying your strongest, smartest, most empowered self. |
| 0:28.0 | What's going on you guys? Welcome back to Embody Radio. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm your host Emily Duncan. |
| 0:32.0 | So I just want to start off today's show by |
| 0:33.6 | saying a huge thank you for all of the amazing feedback on last week's |
| 0:37.7 | show part one with Victoria Fell Car. Honestly I can say that that was the most just sharing of the show that I personally have ever seen. |
| 0:47.0 | Like so many Instagram stories shares, so many comments, so many dams, so many messages, so many, |
| 0:51.0 | just so much everything. Like I haven't even checked the |
| 0:53.2 | downloads on it yet but I can almost assure you that it's going to be one of the |
| 0:57.4 | most downloaded shows that this podcast has ever seen so to thank you guys for |
| 1:01.6 | being so supportive of the show and for you know |
| 1:04.7 | letting me know what you love hearing about and I think it's I don't think it's a |
| 1:08.0 | coincidence at all that that was one of the most listened to shows because |
| 1:11.8 | honestly like so many things within women's health especially stuff like birth control and women in steroids and just so many different women's health issues are so under-discsearched, you know, women in athletics, women in general are very under-researched, but women in athletics are very minimally researched. |
| 1:31.0 | So people like Victoria are working to change that and you know if I go into |
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