Pursuing Wild Health: Women are Not Small Men with Dr. Stacy Sims PH176

<p style="text-align:center;">“If a woman can understand how she feels on different days her cycle, then she can start dialing and being more personalized with her training. When the hormones are low, this is where women have more power, more speed, recover better, have more “mojo” because they have less central nervous system fatigue. Around ovulation, with that boost of estrogen, some women feel bulletproof and other women feel a little bit flat, and then a couple days later they’ll feel bulletproof, so, understanding that as well. And then when you get into the high hormone phase, with estrogen and progesterone being the highest, this is where we want women to deload more, where they’re working functional technique and they’re not doing too much high intensity, they’re not trying to do top-end VO2 work because physiologically you’re fighting your body because there’s so many different metabolic and thermoregulatory and metabolic shifts that happen with the hormones. It’s really hard to do that high, high intensity in the high hormone phase.” - Dr. Stacy Sims</p> <p>In the words of Stacy Sims, Ph.D, women are not small men.  Dr. Sims is an applied researcher, innovator, and entrepreneur in human performance, specifically sex differences in training, nutrition, and environmental conditions.   She is dedicated to educating women so that they can use their natural cycle to their advantage and train with their physiology, not against it.</p> <p>Dr. Sims earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Exercise Physiology and Sports Nutrition from the <a href='https://www.otago.ac.nz/'>University of Otago</a> in New Zealand.  From there, she began work as an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist at <a href='https://healtheducation.stanford.edu/'>Stanford University</a>, where she specialized women's health and performance.</p> <p>During her tenure at Stanford, she had the opportunity to translate earlier research into a science-based layperson's book, <a href='https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AC5JFR6'>ROAR</a>: How to