Performing on your period? Here's everything you need to know | Watts Occurring Femmes

Watts Occurring

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4.8 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week Emma and Manon are joined by female health expert Natalie Brown who dives into her research on the menstrual cycle and tackles the topic of periods. Natalie brought some fascinating insights to the studio and answered Emma and Manon’s questions that we're sure most women want to know. This is essential listening for all cycling fans. A huge thank you to Natalie for giving us her time and expertise. You can find out more about her groundbreaking work here: https://www.instagram.com/Optimal.Period/ Sticking to a similar theme, we’ll be back next week talking all things body image, social media, as well as answering your latest questions for the girls. Watts Occurring Femmes is brought to you by Rouvy, and hosted by Pinarello. Want a free month on ROUVY, on us? Use code FEMMES when you sign up and explore everything ROUVY has to offer. SIGN UP HERE: https://rouvy.com/?utm_source=gtcc&utm_medium=direct-buy&utm_campaign=rouvy-brand&utm_term=femmes-podcast ROUVY connects indoor and outdoor by bringing the real routes from around the world to your home and ROUVY's new Route Creator tool allows users to film, upload and ride their favourite loops on ROUVY. Fancy a trip to your local Pinarello retailer? Visit https://pinarello.com/global/en/store-locator to find your local store today. Oh, and a huge thank you to Arlo & Jacob for Emma and Manon's snazzy armchairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The stage is set. Another massive performance needed.
0:03.8	Look at this, Jason. They're outwarming up already.
0:07.6	Listen to that. Pitch perfect.
0:09.8	George, they just keep going.
0:11.4	The best fans in the world?
0:12.9	Probably.
0:14.4	Carlsberg. Proud supporters of Irish football.
0:17.2	Get the facts. Be Drinkaware. Visit drinkaware.iore.
0:19.9	Visit drinkaware.com.i.e.
0:37.7	Shemai, Emma. Shemai Emma.
0:38.5	Shemai Manon.
0:43.1	And welcome back to what's the Kiran fam, brought to you by Ruby, hosted by Pinarello.
0:47.2	And today we're joined by a very special guest, and I can't wait to get into it.
0:55.9	Yeah, so today on the podcast, we have Natalie Brown, who's done a load of research into female health, and especially the menstrual cycle. And we have a lot to talk about. So welcome to the podcast, Natalie. Thanks for having me. Hello. I feel like first we should go
1:01.4	back to, no one actually spoke to me about a period in my sporting career until you came along
1:09.1	in the very last year. was like guys periods like we need
1:12.9	to be speaking about this and that was I think back in 2018 wasn't it yeah and you did a workshop on
1:18.3	periods and that was the first time in my whole career that's true that someone had spoken about a period
1:23.4	that was mental yeah but so what made you go down kind of that route and do that workshop on periods?
1:31.3	Yeah, so I think there were a couple of things going on that when I'd done my PhD and that was looking at kind of hormone responses, but in males and females.
1:39.3	So looking at testosterone and cortisol and the kind of changes in that when you're doing like
1:44.9	competition preparation or recovery and through that journey I was just like exploring this
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