Hello, folks. Welcome back to the WOOP podcast, where we sit down with top athletes,

researchers, scientists, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their

peak and what you can do to unlock your own best performance. I'm your host, Will Ahmed,

founder and CEO of Woop. We're on a mission to unlock human performance. I'm your host Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, and we're on a mission to

unlock human performance. We've got a great episode this week talking about a very important topic,

disparity in research focused on women versus men. But first, if you're an existing Woop member, we have a special offer for you.

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To this week's episode, we are talking about the disparity in research focused on women.

It's particularly appropriate giving Women's Equality Day on August 26th.

Two leading women at Woop, Emily Capitalupo, our SVP of Data Science and Research,

and Kristen Holmes, our VP of performance,

are joining us to break down this important topic. Okay, they talk about why there is such a

significant gap in athletic performance research focused on women, how that underrepresentation

shows up in other areas, including medication dosing and

prescribing, what recent Woop research found on menstrual cycles and training volume, critical

research Woop conducted with Dr. Sean Rowan of West Virginia University on pregnant women

that suggests exercise is beneficial to mothers and the babies they are carrying

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