If a woman can't understand how she feels on different days of recycle, then she can start dialing and be more personalized than training. You know, when the hormones are low, this is where women have more power, more speed, recover better, have more, quote,

mojo because they have less severe nervous fatigue.

Around ovulation with that boost of estrogen,

some women feel bulletproof,

and other women feel a little bit flat and then a couple of days later they'll feel bulletproof so understanding that as well and then when you get into the high hormone phase with estrogen progester being the highest this is where we want

women to do load more where they're working functional technique they're not

doing too much high intensity they're not trying to do top end V.O2 work because physiologically you're fighting your body

because there's so many different metabolic and therma regulatory and

metabolic shifts that happen with the hormones, it's really hard to do that high high intensity in the high hormone phase.

Hello and welcome to Pursuing Health. I'm Dr. Julie Fushe, family physician and former Cross Fit Games athlete.

Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and medicine

and support your journey toward your healthiest self.

This week's episode is the first in a series of pursuing wild health episodes that I'm publishing in collaboration with Dr. Mike Mallon. of the podcast or check out their own

podcast on iTunes or other podcast platforms. It's called Wild Health. We will

continue to publish more of these collaborative episodes in the near future and make sure to

stay tuned for a big announcement about the future of pursuing health in the new year.

So in this episode we sit down with Dr. Stacey Sims who's a PhD researcher who's

dedicated her life to understanding sex

differences in training and nutrition, and helping women learn to use their

physiology to their advantage. Stacy earned her PhD in environmental

exercise physiology and sports nutrition from the University of Otago in New Zealand.

And from there she began work as an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist at Stanford University,

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