The Science of Sex-Specific Nutrition and Biohacking with Stacy Sims
The Joe Cohen Show
Is There Any Difference Between How Many Carbs Men and Women Need or Are They Optimal?
estrogen progesterone directly affects glucose homeostasis and how your body responds to carbohydrate. We see changes in insulin sensitivity across the menstrual cycle. For men, you don't have that switch because men age in more of a linear fashion like women do. So when we're talking about baseline amount of carbohydrate, it's a little bit individual, but women do need more carbohydrate than men do.
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