Hello and a very big welcome back to the FoodMedic podcast. I'm your host, as always, Dr. Hazel Wallace.

So on this episode, I sit down with Dr. Stacey Sims, well, virtually sit down. And Dr. Sims is an

environmental exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist, specialising in sex differences of heat and altitude

stress, recovery, genetics and nutrition to moderate adaptive responses for performance. She's also

author of Roar, which is a comprehensive physiology-based nutrition and training guides, specifically

designed for active women.

And it was her book that really introduced me to the work that Dr. Stacey Sims is doing.

And I was really interested to read about the things that she was writing about and also just how

different women are compared to men in terms of exercise performance

and recovery, how we should be fueling, supplements, etc. So definitely sit down and enjoy this

podcast. It is jam-packed with information. Just as a little reminder, of course, we are still

recording remotely. Also, Dr. Stacey Sims is not in the UK, so we would be recording remotely

anyway. But the sound quality may not be great in all parts of the episode, but I promise you

the content is. First of all, Stacey, it would be great for the people listening to get a bit of an insight

into your background, kind of in both research and training, so we know a little bit more

about you.

Yeah, so I started as an athlete and had a whole bunch of questions that didn't seem to be

answered. And I think the crowning point was when I was in undergrad and was in the exercise

physiology, kinesiology department and in metabolism and doing experiments where I would always be the one that volunteered

to do like the running trials or the cycling trials or whatever it was. And my results were

always anomalies because I'd be compared against some of the guys that were in the class. And I'd

always ask, well, why are these anomalies? And I'd get the answer, oh,

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