Women's Fertility & Lifestyle Debate: Dangers Of Not Having A Period! Fasting Can Backfire For Women
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What are the consequences of an irregular menstrual cycle?
If someone's menstrual cycle is irregular, should they be concerned? Yes.
Yes. Yes. Your body's meant to work like clockwork. And our monthly cycle is so much more than getting ready to have a baby. Especially when we're looking at exercise.
And it's important to say, if you don't have a period, it's very harmful to long-term health. Brain health. Mental health. Low energy. Mood. And libido. And I don't want the younger generations to have to go through the stuff that we've gone through. So it's an important discussion that we need to have. We are joined by four leading female health experts from very different fields to have a crucial conversation about women's health.
With over 80 years combined experience, they're sharing the truth about what every woman and every man needs to hear.
We asked 1,000 women to submit their questions ahead of this conversation, and I got so many questions around fertility, understanding hormones, PCOS, birth control pill, miscarriage.
And I'll say this, Stephen, it's because we haven't had these discussions publicly. When we look at funding in women's health, it's horrible. Like less than 1% is spent on women over 40.
Women are living 20% more of our lives with chronic disease or mental health disorders.
I mean, 50% of patients with unexplained infertility have endometriosis. But yet it takes women 7 to 10 years to get a diagnosis after symptoms start. But also there are things that we do that will inherently harm our fertility because we're not taught this. And it predisposes you to many medical problems later in life. And patients will say, I have a really high pain tolerance. Yes. Like it's a badge.
So they gaslight themselves. And that's what we're all trying to fight here. But there are a lot of things we can do to deal with this problem.
And then I want to talk about menopause.
So in medical school, menopause just gets shoved into a tiny box.
Why is there a research gap in women's health?
This is a scary statistic. So... Oh, my God.
It's crazy.
I just think it's insane. This is why we need to create change.
This might be one It's probably never going to be the case again that these four individuals that are at the very top of women's health in their fields will be in the same place at the same time having this conversation. We structured this conversation into two parts. They cover completely different subjects, but they're fundamentally interlinked. For me, the understanding that I got from this conversation at this table with these four women has fundamentally changed my life. It's going to change how I deal with my romantic partner, my sister, my team members that I work with every single day. And funnily enough, because it's a conversation I wouldn't have clicked as a man, it turned out to be the conversation that I needed the most.
And I don't think I've ever said this before, but if there was ever an episode to share with a loved one, then this is that episode. Please share this episode with as many women as you can, but also with as many men as you can. Ladies, we should start with some introductions. Could you give me a brief introduction, Stacey, as it relates to your perspective and your experience and what your sort of bias is as it comes to this debate? When I say bias, I mean your experience and your research that you're lending to this conversation today.
I come from the exercise, phys and sports med background.
What does a normal menstrual cycle look like?
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.
Natalie?
I'm a fertility doctor, and every day I help patients with IVF get pregnant because I have an IVF clinic.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the consequences of an irregular menstrual cycle?
0:00–1:35
2
Why is there a research gap in women's health?
1:35–3:18
3
What does a normal menstrual cycle look like?
3:18–7:42
4
How can lifestyle choices impact hormonal health?
7:42–1:49:33
5
What are the implications of hormonal changes during the luteal phase?
1:49:33–1:52:28
6
How can lifestyle changes impact hormonal balance and fertility?
1:52:28–1:54:16
7
What are the signs and symptoms of perimenopause?
1:54:16–1:56:25
8
How does menopause affect mental health and relationships?
1:56:25–3:33:56
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