Dr. Stacy Sims

And so when it comes to exercise, we always have to think about that.

What needs to happen?

Are you somebody who is overweight and needs to lose weight?

Are you somebody who's underweight and is trying to gain weight?

Are you trying to get pregnant or going through fertility treatments or in menopause?

So there's nuance to it, which always makes it hard.

But there's not a one, do this one exercise every single day.

That's pretty much not the answer.

In addition to the fact that for proper hormonal health, if you think about inflammation coming in, it's like static on a walkie-talkie.

The brain's trying to interpret your hormones, and when inflammation's coming in, it's making the signals really hard to hear.

So we need to make sure that we're actively fighting that, and building muscle is one great way because it's going to use up glucose and fight insulin resistance, which means makes your cells more sensitive to when it sees glucose and able to use it better.

If you have another thing that is pro-inflammatory, such as PCOS or endometriosis, it's even more important for you because your inflammatory burden by default of what's happening at a cellular level is higher.

We now need to not just say,

I need to not make it worse by being exposed to things.

We have to say, I need a plan to fight this because my world is pro-inflammatory on a daily basis.

What is my game plan to fight this?

And building muscle.

It's not just exercise is better than no exercise, but specifically building muscle because as everybody's saying, it has a metabolic function in your body is going to help you the most.

But that's not the standard recommendation.

A bone scan to see your bone density is the easiest way to describe it.