How to Harness Your Hormones with Dr. Nicky Keay (Episode 136)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Hormones bring your DNA to life. They drive your training adaptations, help build muscle and bone, modulate your immune system, and much, much more. As peri and postmenopausal women we often focus on estrogen and progesterone (and maybe testosterone), but others like human growth hormone, vitamin D, and cortisol deserve our attention, too. And though hormone therapy is one tool for optimizing your hormonal health during this time of life, it’s not the only one. This week we dive into it all with Dr. Nicky Keay, author of Hormones, Health and Human Potential: A Guide to Understanding Your Hormones to Optimise Your Health and Performance.

Dr. Nicola “Nicky” Keay is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer in Medicine at University College London. She lectures and researches in areas of exercise endocrinology, with publications in this field. Her clinical endocrine work is mainly with exercisers, dancers and athletes, with a focus on relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S) and athletes navigating perimenopause/menopause. She authored the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM)’s Health4performance.co.uk online resource. She is also the medical advisor to Scottish Ballet and a keen dancer herself taking four ballet classes per week. You can learn more about Dr. Keay and her work at nickykeayfitness.com

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.7	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:34.3	I hope you all are well.
0:36.7	So a couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the
0:39.7	female athlete conference in Boston, Massachusetts. And I got to meet a bunch of you. And that was
0:46.1	really special. And thank you to everyone who came up and said hi. That was a real treat. And,
0:52.0	you know, it was just a really great experience overall. The
0:56.0	conference was spearheaded by past guests, an absolute phenom, Dr. Kate Ackerman,
1:02.5	who put together a really tremendous program. Dr. Stacey Sims was there in presenting,
1:08.1	as well as other past and upcoming guests like Abby Smith
1:12.1	Ryan and Samantha Moore and I got to hang out and dance on a boat with other past guests, Dr.
1:17.9	Carla DiGeralimo.
1:19.5	And aside from just being a really, really good time, it was also really, really inspiring
1:25.7	to be surrounded by so many brilliant, accomplished, confident women,
1:30.5	presenting scientific findings and offering insights in all things women's sport and performance.
1:36.7	We'll be creating content around what we saw and learned there, but it left me feeling
1:41.2	really hopeful about the future for sure.
1:44.4	All right, before I get to this week's guest, who I was super stoked to speak with, I just want to
1:49.5	make one clarification regarding a show we did a few weeks back with Tanya Oxendine from the
1:55.3	Wounded Warriors Project. In the intro to that show, I included some stats on sexual assault
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