S7 E10: No period? why it matters and how to get it back with Danielle Logue

The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

You might think you’re at your peak fitness - you’re exercising regularly, maybe even competing or running marathons, you’re strict on your nutrition and perhaps you’ve even lost weight but you’re periods have gone?

This is a lot more common than you might think. In fact one study of regular exercising women, found that half had menstrual disturbances and over a third had no period at all.

If this sounds like you - the road to recovery can be long and daunting but hopefully this episode will help.

In this episode Dr Hazel is joined by Danielle Logue who is currently working as a performance nutritionist within Sport Ireland Institute, delivering nutritional services to high performing athletes. In 2019, she completed my PhD in University College Dublin in collaboration with Sport Ireland Institute. The area of research was Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport and its relationship with injury, illness, health and performance.

This episode covers:
- RED-S : what is it and who is affected?
- Health effects of not having a menstrual cycle
- How to get your period back
- RED-S in males
- Matching your nutrition to your training demands
- Specific nutritional requirements for female athletes
- Common signs of under-fuelling
- What to eat when recovering from an injury
- Advice for nutrition undergrads who want to do postgraduate research.

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0:30.2	You might think you're at your peak fitness,
0:34.0	you're exercising regularly,
0:35.8	maybe you're even competing or running marathons,
0:38.3	you're strict on your nutrition,
0:39.7	and perhaps you've even lost weight,
0:41.7	but your periods have gone.
0:43.9	This is a lot more common than you might think.
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