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Nutrition & Exercise tips for Women | Stacy Sims, Phd

The Proof with Simon Hill

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Is There a Competitive Advantage With Oral Contraception or Iud?

With an iud she'll still be naturally cycling so we know that after six month of insertion she'll ovulate again. She can keep track of where she is in her cycle by using basal body temperature or using an over counter luteinizing hormone. When you're looking at oral contraceptive pill it completely down regulates your ovarian hormone and the hormones start to increase across the active pill phases. If you're going to do any kind of training especially for looking for lean masking you want to do it opposite of when you take your pill. The first week of the active pill is akin to being in the follicular phase of the natural cycle with regards to intensity recovery power adaptation speed adaptation.

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