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Nutrition & Exercise tips for Women | Stacy Sims, Phd

The Proof with Simon Hill

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How Do You Track Your Menstrual Cycle?

The first thing is tracking menstrual cycle. If you are not at risk of low energy availability we say get an estrogen or estradiol test on day 2 and a progesterone test on day 21. Once you are understanding how long your cycle is and if it changes then we also want you to kind of keep track of your sleep in your training according to where you are in your menstrual cycle because you'll start to see patterns. The best way I can describe of the kind of epiphany that happens there is now women feel empowered instead of doing self blame.

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