Dr. Vonda Wright

So this is what we see with fasting data and we see with restrictive diets.

And that was, we need to bring it back to that biological lens, low calorie.

I have to go find the calories.

I have to be fit to go find the calories.

Low calories, I need to not have to eat as much.

So I need to store fat and I can't have a baby because we don't have enough calories.

And then stress?

When we add modern stress onto that, that's a comprehensive addition of cortisol and addition of inflammation, and that also perpetuates body fat.

I like to frame it where women are under recovering, not over training.

So if we're under recovery, then it makes it more acceptable to fuel.

And I always want to bring it back to, it doesn't matter, like, because I come from high performance, I'm going to use those words where it's like, you're not recovering enough.

We want to focus on recovery on these days.

We want to make sure that you're eating and fueling around.

So it's never overtraining.

It's always under recovery.

The balance is wrong.

I hate that because it's a construct of society, right?

Especially Western society.

This is where we have to educate.

It's not your fault.