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Female Athletic Performance with Dr. Carla DiGirolamo PH275

Pursuing Health

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The Implications of Relative Energy Deficiency in Women

When you have a woman so a woman who is not having her cycle because she's in this state of relative energy deficiency. You know what are the implications of that? So if I have someone who comes to me for the first time and I'm getting known them I think I want to make sure I exclude any other reason why she may not have a period. Does she have thyroid dysfunction does she have a prolactinoma which is a vision in the pituitary gland, or PCOS polycystic ovarian syndrome. That is a hormone that can be secreted that can stop your periods just because it's a little growth in one of the glands that comes off the base of the

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