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S6E7: Bulletproof Your Joints: Nutrition and Training Strategies for Stronger Tendons & Ligaments w Dr. Keith Baar, PhD

The Performance Nutrition Podcast

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Is There a Difference Between Male and Female ACLs?

When we look at sex differences between males and females, can you walk us through some of the sort of benefits or how the nuances change there? Yeah, sure. So again, our tenants and our extracellular matrix, their stiffness is determined by how much collagen there's in them. And so what that and then what we found is that the enzyme lysoloxidase, which is one of the enzymes that adds those little cross links is directly inhibited by estrogen. In soccer and basketball, women are two to eight times more likely to rupture an ACL.

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