Stop Spinning Your Wheels: Fueling for Real Midlife Gains with Meghann Featherstun, MS, RD, CSSD (Episode 263)

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Fitness, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.9 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Sports nutrition is confusing. Sports nutrition for endurance athletes is even more confusing. And sports nutrition for midlife female endurance athletes? That’s where a lot of women end up working incredibly hard… and getting nowhere, because they’re trying to outtrain a fueling problem. This week we sat down with sports dietitian and endurance athlete Meghann Featherstun of Featherstone Nutrition to talk about the fueling mistakes that women often struggle with the most: iron status, energy availability, carbohydrate fueling, hydration, and GI distress, along with the emerging complications of GLP-1 medications.

Meghann Featherstun, MS, RD, CSSD Owner and founder of Featherstone Nutrition ltd, Meghann has been working with endurance athletes as a board certified sports dietitian for the last 10 years. Passionate about helping runners, triathletes, and active individuals crush their biggest, baddest performance goals through solid daily & performance nutrition. A 3:58 to 2:49 marathoner herself, she knows what it takes to use solid nutrition to elevate potential as an athlete. You can learn more about her and her work at featherstonenutrition.com

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:12.2	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 your best no matter what
0:21.7	your hormones are doing. This show is a production of feisty media.
0:27.2	Hello, strong feisty women. I hope you all are well. So let's talk nutrition. I do not
0:34.0	have to tell you that nutrition is super confusing, and the sports nutrition, even more so,
0:39.7	and when you layer in females and perimenopause and postmenopause, the waters get muddy super fast.
0:46.3	That's why I really enjoyed the conversation that you're about to hear with this week's guest,
0:51.8	sports dietician and endurance athlete Megan Featherstone of Featherstone Nutrition.
0:57.8	I've been following Megan for a while and she just really knows the right levers to pull to help women get the most out of themselves,
1:06.2	including many that get overlooked in typical blood panels or normal just wellness checks.
1:14.7	And she also not only works with women in our demographic, she works with a lot of endurance
1:20.3	athletes as a board certified sports dietitian for the past decade, but she also just walks
1:25.4	to talk. She herself, following her own advice, went from a
1:28.9	358 marathon to a 249 marathon, and she hit that personal best in 23, in Berlin, shortly after
1:37.1	turning 40. So this week, we just dig into a whole lot of conversations that often fly under the radar, especially around
1:45.8	iron, carbohydrate timing, hydration, and much, much more.
1:50.9	And just a few notes before we get into it, because we do cover a whole lot of territory
1:56.0	here.
1:56.5	And after I listened, I was like, a couple little things I want to clarify for people.
2:00.4	We talk about iron
2:01.7	right up front, and we talk about the timing of iron supplements and how that is sometimes really,
2:06.8	really confusing. There's a lot of mixed messages about the best time to take iron, and because
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