[Women’s Health] Reproductive Function, Birth Control and Pharmaceutical Steroid Hormones, Anders Varner, and Doug Larson #746
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Victoria Felkar is a doctoral candidate conducting interdisciplinary research on women’s health, reproductive function, and pharmaceutical steroid hormones. With a unique background in both the hard sciences and humanities, her work offers a novel and critical perspective into the use of drugs for health and performance purposes within the female athlete population. Victoria’s research has achieved international awards and accolades within both academia and industry.
Beyond academia, Victoria is an internationally respected educator and consultant within the fitness, bodybuilding and strength sector. Her unique multidisciplinary background has provided the perfect platform for pioneering work in athlete-centered coaching methods, integrated health-performance methods, and female athlete health. For the past 13 years, she has worked with a wide range of individuals and organizations, including top-level athletes and competitors, special populations, health professionals and strength coaches, and has lectured at events worldwide.
Victoria’s professional experience and research are synergistic, providing her with the opportunity to continue to bridge the gap between academia and the industry. Her passion is building and sharing knowledge.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrck Family this week on Bar Bell Shrug Victoria Falker is coming in and she is about to drop some serious |
| 0:07.7 | serious information when it comes to women's health reproductive health birth control if you are potentially a coach and athletes are, |
| 0:16.7 | your female athletes are thinking about performance enhancing drugs, |
| 0:20.0 | this is going to be very, very informative to you. |
| 0:22.5 | I also want to, we spent a lot of time talking about the birth control side of things. |
| 0:27.2 | My eyes were opened dramatically to understanding what different types of birth control, the things that you should be looking for |
| 0:34.4 | maybe having the conversation in your own house about birth controls and then also |
| 0:38.2 | something that I had never thought about this is kind of in males and females of when birth controls can be |
| 0:45.3 | used in like a performance enhancing setting which absolutely blew my mind but |
| 0:49.8 | kind of makes sense because they can control and regulate hormone production. |
| 0:53.2 | So then you can obviously use them at the right times and specific hormones |
| 0:57.8 | to have them in an elite high performance setting. So you can hear all three of myself, Doug, and Travis |
| 1:06.6 | many times in this with our minds, just completely blown |
| 1:08.8 | and then coach Travis Mash, |
| 1:10.6 | obviously coach is female weightlifter, |
| 1:12.1 | so he is consistently |
| 1:13.8 | dealing with issues around menstrual cycles, |
| 1:17.4 | training cycles, peeking cycles, |
| 1:20.1 | and trying to match all those things together. |
| 1:22.1 | So very, very informative on his side of the house |
| 1:24.8 | as well as just kind of like mind-blowing information |
| 1:26.8 | that I had never thought of before. |
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