Dr Stacy Sims - Women are not Small Men - a podcast by Siri Lindley and Rebekah Keat, Team Sirius Tri Club

This week, Bek introduces the amazing Dr. Stacy Sims to the team to talk about the key points to think about as a woman athlete.  

"For over 20 years I've been telling women they are NOT small men.  It fell upon deaf ears for a long time.  Now I'm shouting. "

Stacy T. Sims, PhD, is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Waikato after returning to academia from a 6-year hiatus in industry. She is an applied researcher, innovator and entrepreneur in human performance, specifically sex differences in training, nutrition, and environmental conditions.

Prior to being launched into industry, she served as an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist at Stanford University from 2007 to 2012, where she specialized in sex differences of environmental and nutritional considerations for recovery and performance. specializing in women's health and performance.

She answers everything from what you need to change when it comes to fueling, how to minimize belly fat (especially after menopause), is there a danger in taking too much zinc and so much more.

Fueling for women - lower carbohydrates, higher electrolytes.  And what your eating needs to have sodium and electrolytes.

Belly Fat: how do you strategically manage it? - Alter the stress of your exercise and make sure you're getting a good source of protein after training (within 15-30 minutes after the work out). 

Pre-period protocol: Is there a danger in taking too much zinc?  No, there's no issue in taking a little more than the recommendation, but you don't want to OD on these either.

Thoughts on fasting: For women, it generally puts in more fat with these fasts and we don't develop the insulin control that men do, and we increase our percentage of getting fatty liver disease and it makes us a little more anxious. 

You can learn more about Dr Stacy Sims on her website http://www.drstacysims.com
On her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/drstacysims/
Or on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drstacysims/

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