Episode #336 with the Nutrition Mechanic Dina Griffin - a podcast by Debbie Potts

Debbie and Dina start to dive deep into the unknown subject of training and fueling the low carb FEMALE athlete to improve performance and longevity.

There is NOT much research conducted in this area so we need to start to use our own N = 1 experiment.

Start to reduce your external and hidden internal stressors with functional lab testing and clinical correlation with an FDN Practitioner health detective as myself, Debbie, for starters!

You don't know what is "under the hood" unless you run well-chosen functional lab testing and correlate data together to put the missing pieces of the puzzle together.

• Coaches should always strive to build training according to their athletes’ unique physiology, but how many of our training practices are weighted toward the male experience?
• How does our nutrition and hydration affect performance?
• What doe you think is outdated science that has led to one-size-fits-all training?
• How do our female hormones affect the way we train and perform on race day?  How are women different than men?
• Most of our research is based on men- so how should we interpret data and recommendations for the female athlete – premenopausal and post menopausal?
• Should women train have fasted?  Or are we causing additional source of stress?
• Should female athletes follow a ketogenic diet? 
• Do female endurance athletes need carbs… how much is too low or too high? 
• Discuss the menstrual cycle- training and fueling based on our cycle days.
• How does the status of the female’s microbiome impact our fueling, training and performing?
• How should the female athlete hydrate differently than men?
• Recovery tips for the female athlete vs. male athlete
• Training and racing in hot environments- female vs. male athlete
• transition into peri-menopause?
• what about to menopause and post-menopause —> How should female athletes adjust nutrition or what should they be paying attention to?
• Stacy doesn’t recommend fasting in the book due to concerns for cortisol levels, fat gain, etc…. Can you share some thoughts on this?
• Is keto appropriate? (loaded question!)
• training nutrition - can refer to your notes on pages 6-8 and ask me a question or two about fueling recommendations?  (not sure how you want to ask that)
• recovery nutrition - what should women athletes keep in mind? 
• hydration - what are changes that women experience as they age? what they can do? 

Of course we ran out of time so stay connected to learn more in upcoming episodes!

Find Dina here... https://nutritionmechanic.com/

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