Dr. Stacy Sims

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.

So when you're thinking about designing studies, it was...

pretty much designed on the male physiology, on the male body, and then women were an afterthought.

So there wasn't any real in-depth look of, well, women are different from birth or in utero, XX is different from XY.

So all the research has just been generalized to women, even things like aspirin for heart attacks and thinning blood.

Yeah, all of this was done on men and then just generalized to women.

And now that we're having this global conversation on women's health, people are like, well, where is the information specific for women?

And there's just a very small subset.

So we're looking and trying to expand that, but we have a lot of catching up to do.

That's crazy.

And there were still loopholes where people were finding ways to exclude women.