Dr. Stacy Sims

There's no difference.

Yes, there is.

There is.

And it's not just me saying it.

And it's not bad.

It just is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, they used to put women into asylums because of hysteria.

And it was hot flashes, all the things that are now known with perimenopause.

They used to think it was some kind of insanity and put women into insane asylums to lock them down.

Well, in ex-phys techs, you always had the representative of him or they and the Vesuvius man and all the angles of the male body, but there was never representation of women.

The only time you heard about a female athlete was all the pathophysiology, you know, the iron deficiency, the female athlete triad, which we now…

call relative energy deficiency in sport.

And when you're looking at the historical idea of sport, the only way women were actually included and accepted is when they were amenorrheic, because then they were, quote, more like men.

And then there wasn't a problem with training them, and then they could work as hard.

But we know that that's not appropriate.

That's a sign of illness and overtraining under recovery.

So it is pervasive everywhere.

It's not just the medical, but it goes into when you think about what it means to be successful in sport.