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The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Why Perimenopause Isn't the End: Fitness and Nutrition Strategies

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Kate Kresge

Alternative Health, Medicine, 810564, Health & Fitness

4.8581 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode of The Root Cause Medicine Podcast, we explore the perimenopausal transition and its impact on women's health with Dr. Stacy Sims. You’ll hear us discuss: 1. Understanding and managing the perimenopausal transition 2. Exercise and nutrition in perimenopause 3. What type of HIIT is your secret weapon for supporting hormones 4. The benefits of resistance training and HIIT in perimenopause for bones and brain 5. Why your protein intake needs to change after 30 Dr. Sims is a pioneering exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist dedicated to transforming women's exercise nutrition and performance. With research programs at Stanford, AUT University, and the University of Waikato, she focuses on advancing female athlete health and challenging outdated practices to improve research on women. Dr. Sims has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers and several influential books, including ROAR and Next Level. Order tests through Rupa Health, the BEST place to order functional medicine lab tests from 30+ labs - https://www.rupahealth.com/reference-guide

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0:00.0

Today on the root cause medicine podcast.

0:03.0

When you start digging into the research on creatine, it has that stigma of being

0:07.1

bodybuilder supplement.

0:09.2

But we start looking at it from a health perspective.

0:12.0

There's a whole website devoted to creatine for longevity and health.

0:16.5

So it's creatine for health.

0:18.5

And women have 70 to 80% of the stores that men have.

0:22.7

And it's important for brain health, heart health, gut health, as well as muscle performance.

0:28.1

And as we're getting older and we're having less and less quality in our tissues,

0:33.0

if we're supplementing with creatine, we see that it helps with a lot of the mood swings

0:38.2

and mood issues that women with kerry menopause have.

0:42.1

Also improves muscle function.

0:44.3

Hello, hello.

0:45.2

I'm your co-host for today, Dr. Carrie Jones.

0:47.3

And I am so excited as I have on Dr. Stacey Sims.

0:51.8

She is a pioneering exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist absolutely

0:57.4

transforming exercise nutrition and performance for women. According to her, if you work out,

1:03.5

you're an athlete. And guess what? You need to listen up. She has groundbreaking work on female

1:08.5

athletic health, sex differences between training, nutrition,

1:12.7

men, and women, and she even talked about at the end what she's doing with menstrual fluid.

1:18.6

Now, I know that sounds crazy, but imagine being able to collect menstrual blood and determine

1:22.9

things like endometriosis, PCOS, or HPV.

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