Dr. Stacy Sims is an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who is working to close the gender gap that exists in the exercise, sports, and nutrition science space. While training as an undergrad athlete, Dr. Sims found that much of the research on exercise science, sports, and nutrition is based on the male body, which led her to set out to close the gap. Now she is on a mission to change the way women are viewed and studied in the research world and help give athletes the tools they need to hack their hormones and train in a way that works with and not against their physiology. Mercey Livingston, Editor at Equinox, discusses biohacking your hormones for optimizing training and performance with Dr. Sims in an exclusive audio interview.
Episode topic breakdown
1:08 - How Dr. Sim's personal experience training as an undergrad athlete led her to change her major and study exercise physiology
3:40 - Hormonal patterns throughout the menstrual cycle and how they affect exercise training and performance
8:00 - Using information about your hormones and cycles to your advantage
11:45 - Cycle tracking apps and how to integrate them into your training
14:00 - How to adjust movement to your hormone patterns
18:20 - When to adjust your nutrition according to your cycle and training goals
19:30 - Maximizing recovery and regeneration with your hormones
23:00 - What research says about nutrition timing for women
23:50 - Why the Keto diet, Intermittent Fasting, and low carb diets can be harmful to women's health, according to Dr. Sims
28:00 - Dr. Sims' top tip for women who want to get stronger and build muscle
31:10 - Future outlook on closing the research gap
33:25 - The research gap in exercise and sport science, supplement research, biomedical science
34:20 - The state of research for those who do not identify as cisgender women