What Happens to Muscle During Menopause with Sam Moore, MS, CSCS (Episode 150)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Millions of women will tell you they feel like their muscle disappeared overnight once they hit the menopause transition. It may not technically happen in a 24 hour period, but muscle tissue really does slip away quickly over the perimenopause period. That’s a problem because muscle is our metabolic engine and helps us live, play, and perform our best. This week, we sat down with exercise scientist Sam Moore, who was so moved by her athletic mother’s experience during perimenopause, she devoted herself to learning as much as she could to help others. She presented her research on body composition, activity, and nutrition in menopause at this year’s Female Athlete Conference. We talk all about her research there and much more.

Sam Moore is an applied sport scientist and Human Movement Science Doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Medicine, researching endocrinological topics of applied female athlete sport science. Sam completed her undergraduate degree in Exercise Science and Human Biology from Western Oregon University and her master’s degree in Performance Enhancement and Injury Prevention from California University of Pennsylvania. Prior to Carolina, Sam was with the NC State Wolfpack from 2019-2021 as the Director of Sport Science and Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach. As the first woman to serve as a Director of Sport Science in the NCAA, Sam implemented a revolutionary and evidence-informed framework of women’s specific training design based on the hormonal landscape of the Wolfpack female athletes. You can learn more about her and her work at mooresportscience.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.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help
0:21.2	you feel and perform you best, no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.7	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:33.6	So, if you've listened to me talk about my own menopause experience on this show, as well as on other shows that I've been on, you've heard me say over and over that it feels like my muscles disappeared overnight.
0:47.4	And I am not the first or only person to say this. It's something I hear again and again. And though, no, technically muscle loss in
0:56.9	menopause does not happen over a 24-hour period. It does indeed happen quite quickly. And this
1:04.1	week I sat down with sports scientists Sam Moore to tell us all about it. I saw Sam present her research on body composition, activity, and
1:13.4	nutrition and menopause at the female athlete conference earlier this year, and I immediately
1:18.5	knew I had to have her on the show. Though she is quite young herself, menopause became her passion
1:24.2	after she watched how much her own very athletic mom struggled through the
1:29.2	transition. So we talk all about what happens, what it means for how we experience menopause,
1:34.5	and of course what to do about it. Sam is an applied sport scientist and human movement science
1:40.3	doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills School of Medicine,
1:45.5	where she researches endocrine-related topics of applied female athlete sports science.
1:51.4	Prior to coming to Carolina, Sam was with the NC State Wolf Pack from 2019 to 2021, as the director
1:59.8	of sports science and assistant strength and conditioning coach.
2:03.3	And as the first woman to serve as a director of sport science in the NCAA, Sam implemented
2:10.2	a revolutionary and evidence-informed framework of women's specific training designed based on the
2:17.0	hormonal landscape of the Wolfpack female
2:19.6	athletes, which I think is really very cool. You can learn more about her and her work at more
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