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This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 537.

In today's episode, we are diving into the topic of sport and how it affects the menstrual cycle.

I found an interesting article.

This is an article that I drew from when I was writing the HA chapter of Real Food for Fertility.

And the article gets into a really interesting question, which is,

you know, which sports are more likely to delay Menarch, to disrupt the menstrual cycle,

which sports are associated with more menstrual cycle disruptions compared to others.

So without further ado, let's go ahead and jump into this fascinating topic.

So I always say that the title of these studies leave something to be desired.

They're not necessarily catchy.

But the title of the study, the prevalence of menstrual cycle disorders in female athletes from different sports. So I shortened it a little bit, but that's basically the

overview. And so when I was researching the H.A. chapter, I reviewed many studies. In every chapter, we reviewed

many studies. But this one stood out because it's a meta-analysis, so a review of several studies.

So it really pulls together a lot of data on a variety of different sports and presents it in a way that allows us to

kind of summarize and pull out basically the answer to the question of which sports are associated

with menstrual cycle disruptions or even you could ask the question, are there certain sports

that are associated with greater degrees of menstrual cycle

disruption than other sports? So we'll get into it. And I'll share some of my thoughts,

of course, and takeaways from the study. So just to kind of set the stage here, there were 48

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