Dr. Stacy Sims

Focus on setting up a life that is going to help prevent some of these diseased outcomes.

Start testing things earlier.

You're going to be in a position of power to make the decisions that are right for you from a place of education and not be left making them out of fear or misinformation or not knowing.

Because when it...

Women will go through these stages.

Time will make your fertility decisions for you if you do not.

That's a fact that your ovaries will stop functioning.

You will go into menopause.

So we need to both prepare for our reproductive years, optimize our fertility the best we can if that's a life goal for us, but to realize that it doesn't stop there, that you have to prepare for the next stage of the journey and what that's going to look like for you.

But the steps to take care of yourself start well before if you're able to.

I just think it's insane.

This is why we need to create change.

I come from the exercise, phys and sports med background.

So I'm always looking through the lens of activity and nutrition and how that has impact on our stress and our stress outcomes and how we can adapt to specific applied stressors.

especially when we're looking at improving health span, improving mood, improving body composition, all of those things.

I've worked with and still work with the subset of active women.

I come from an endurance and a high-profile, high-performance sport background.

So that's where I've gotten my chops and then brought it over into the general recreational female athlete kind of perspective.

You have to think about who was in the room when medicine and science first started.

So if you think about back when the Industrial Revolution and the modernization of what we know as medicine, women were pushed out because they were believed to have smaller brains, thanks to Darwin, and not thought to have a seat at the table.