Less Fuel, More Problems. Why Menopausal Athletes Need to Eat More with Heidi Skolnik (Episode 103)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Eat less. How many times have you seen and heard that message? As a generation that grew up steeped in diet culture, most of us have it deeply internalized…often to our detriment. Underfueling among active women is extremely common and puts us at risk for low energy availability (LEA), which can lead to relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S), a condition that not only hurts performance, but also can cause irreparable negative health consequences. LEA/RED-S can be especially difficult to spot in midlife women because the symptoms mirror those we experience during perimenopause. We dig into all of it this week to help you avoid LEA/RED-S and get the fuel you need to feel and perform your best with Heidi Skolnik, MS, CDN, FACSM of Nutrition Conditioning, LLC, and author of The Athlete Triad Playbook.

Heidi is a sports nutritionist, exercise physiologist, and thought leader in her field. She has been part of The Women’s Sports Medicine Center at Hospital for Special Surgery for over 20 years and oversees the nutrition program at The Juilliard School and the School of American Ballet. Heidi has sat on the Board of The National Osteoporosis Foundation for ten years and currently sits on the Medical Advisory Committee of The National Menopause Foundation. She is also the co-author of the NYTimes Best Selling The Whole Body Reset (Simon & Schuster and AARP). You can learn more about her and her work at heidiskolnik.com

Resources:

https://athletetriadplaybook.com/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2021.640621/full

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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.
0:30.4	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:33.0	So we've got an important one for you this week.
0:35.9	I sat down with sports nutritionist and exercise
0:39.6	physiologist Heidi Skolnick to talk all about low energy availability and relative energy
0:46.1	deficiency in sport, which are just long scientific ways to say you're not eating enough.
0:52.3	And this is something I know comes up a lot on the show.
0:56.2	We are women who have been steeped in diet culture our whole lives. We've had commercials,
1:02.2	celebrities, heck, maybe even doctors and coaches, tell us that thinner is better.
1:08.3	Many of us have struggled with disordered eating, if not outright, eating disorders
1:12.6	our whole lives. I will raise my hand and say that I am in that camp. You know, I had an eating
1:19.5	disorder very early on in my life, in my teens, and that just never leaves you. You know, you can
1:26.7	get better,
1:30.8	but you always have that gremlin living somewhere in your mind.
1:32.7	And I know I'm not alone.
1:34.6	I'm far from alone on that one.
1:40.6	And the menopause transition can be a precarious time for all of this, as our hormones change, our bodies change,
1:43.0	and we struggle to gain control through
1:45.2	the only means many of us know, quote unquote, watching what we eat. And when active women don't
1:52.2	eat enough, there are many downstream consequences that can reverberate for years, if not for
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