I was born in the early 1950s, got my 1st period at age 12 the summer after 6th grade. My father, a physician, had given me a book on the facts of life, a gift from my grandfather (a physician) for my 11th birthday. The title "The Facts of Life". I truly appreciated this gift although the book read more like a medical textbook than anything applicable to getting my 1st period. It showed the biomedical mechanics of the male and female reproductive systems, mentioning the menstrual cycle and how a baby forms. Zero guidance on how it feels to get your period or how to reckon with it. My mother never prepared me for what to expect or do until I actually told her I'd gotten mine and asked what to do. She offered me a sanitary belt and pads with little explanation. It felt like something shrouded in shame. Since my mother used pads, it was all she knew. And she had nothing further to add, no pep talk or silver lining. Later, I was at my friend Kerry's house when I got my next period. I felt so embarrassed to ask her if she had a spare pad. She said no, she used tampons and asked if I wanted to try it. I didn't have any details at all about tampons except magazine ads showing a nondescript box. Then Kerry got her mom who explained everything in detail in the most open, kind manner without a hint of embarrassment. She answered my many questions. She even told me that light physical activity like walking helped calm cramps and strong emotions. Her explanations were golden and so helpful. I was so grateful because it dispelled a lot of my concerns about what is normal. When I left Kerry's house, I was wearing a tampon and had extras to figure out if they were for me. I told my mom about the whole experience when I got home. All the questions and concerns I'd had and the answers given. I wanted her to know how this advice helped me. I knew more about tampons than she did. When I realized this, it gave me compassion for her, a 37-year old school teacher who didn't know much about such things even after 17 years of marriage and giving birth. This is when I began to truly understand how repressed many of the so-called Silent Generation were (my parents born after WW1 during the Depression). They were too afraid to even ask questions. I can only imagine why that silence existed.
Sadly it has been like that for many women. I imagine pads and even tampons have been invented by men. Pads made me feel incontinent, like wearing diapers. Tampons dehydrate and thus can easily cause headaches. Since I started using a menstrual cup, live has been so much easier. I can do everything, even swim, go on holiday or to festivals without ever worrying about leaking, toilet bins or packing materials to refresh. It's still a topic people don't often talk about, but I found this change to be lifechanging. What if we handed out cups to poor women around the world. 9% of all waste is diapers. We could do so much better for ourselves.
Women are not "difficult to study"...we make up half of the population and this is just the way we are. Thank you Dr. Sims for your work and for being a force of change!
If you think about it, it will in fact be more difficult to study women because of the cycles. It looks like our needs differ depending on where we are in the cycle, whereas men have the same needs constantly Because we need to take into account our needs as a function of the cycle, this will be more 'difficult' to study. But of course thats not a reason not to study it! We need way more health studies on women.
@@birgittabirgersdatter8082 it is not normalized among vegans, women lose their period because they eat too little no matter diet and lifestyle. Stop spreading lies.
@@littleDainolf there are actually a lot of vegan youtubers who think that the period is just detox and when you dont have it anymore you are "clean". I think freelee started that bs a few years ago, but I've seen it in other videos as well...
*I've worked as an EMT and it's disturbing how little research there is on women's specific medical complications too, for example, the differing symptoms during cardiac events.*
@@ADerpyReality why do you say that? I've worked in traditional Aboriginal communities in Australia and they talk about PMS (they don't use the same words but it's the same symptoms) I know people in Asia and Africa who talk about it too.
I have learned more about women in the last 13 minutes and 45 seconds than i have in the last 40 years. We need to put a Stacy Sims in every school, not just for the kids but for the teachers to learn from too.
49% is not anomaly The cheap laugh will be long forgotten and the bias she herself highlighted, this idea of 'loss of resources to women' prevails. Uncalled for.
@Markfield Park most medical research is done exclusively on men, even at earlier stages even "mouse modelling" is done on male mice.... A lot of research that is classified as being for women is in obstetrics and is about securing better infant rather than maternal outcomes... So it really isn't about the women themselves....
Coaches who work with female athletes should be required to learn this information, especially in the NCAA collegiate system. It's been so gratifying to help the current generation of female athletes navigate their menstrual cycles through training with information in Dr. Sims book ROAR. Very excited for the updated research she will be releasing
This is a much broader problem in science. Most studies are conducted with men only to avoid irregularities, even though often those irregularities could be important for what is being studied.
Considering women with periods are not an "irregularity" they should not be controlled out. If they're concerned about how it effects the data they should just track the cycle so they can manipulate the data with controls the same way they do for other variables.
This was perfectly said. Women are women. My wife has been through the same thing that I think most wives have been through. Their husband can lose weight easier and it discourages her. We need more information like this so she can do what her body is supposed to do.
100%! I worked out with a guy, who gained tons of muscle.. I ate healthier, ate what I “needed” to gain muscle and it was so much slower gains. Like :( Hormones are very much the difference between our bodies.
"Women are not small men" women are women, we have cycles, early in our cycle we can work hard, later in our cycle we need to rest more. We need to work with our bodies not against them!
We are so disconnected from our cycles and even worse, have no respect for them. In the some cultures, periods are celebrated and sacred. They dont try to ignore that something is happening. They dont try to numb and fight through it. They look at what is going on, see what needs to change to make it less painful(healthwise), they slow down and rest when it's appropriate. We need to respect our bodies! Something I am teaching my children.
@Loki Nebula someones appearance doesn't change how smart they are or how qualified they are. rather listen to someone who went to school, got a PhD on the topic they are talking about than some random dude who cares so much about appearance. everything you said about her appearance is subjective
@Loki Nebula don't know why everyone is on your case,,, she does look like a man... large brow ridge, wide shoulders, broad and flat chest, no waistline, narrow hips... that's a masculine body type I didn't notice you saying it bothered you either, just made an observation, subjective maybe, but it fits what most people define as a masculine body type. So she's explaining why women don't typically look masculine EVEN when training... and blaming it on gender bias(?), as in this is how a female body works differently than a male body
If only this was concerning just sport and nutrition... almost all medical and psychological studies are done with the subjects being only men or men and women who are on hormonal contraceptives. Meaning the results are applicable to men and women who take hormonal contraceptives. Why? Scientists want to avoid fluctuation to get clean results. The only problem is, that there IS fluctuation within the menstrual cycle and we HAVE to take it into consideration if we want to treat or analyse women.
The least talked about difference between men and women, and yet it is the MOST significant. Thank you for bringing awareness to women and the scary word... period. 🙏🏼
This is the reason why I want to study women’s health. People always say what is there to study about women. I say EVERYTHING if you look at almost all general case studies and scientific research regarding the human mind and body a mass majority of the research is going to have been originally based on men or entirely based on men and equally applied to women with little to no adjustment. I don’t understand how scientists and physicians can deny the fact that the biological differences mean something and thus affect us different. Down to our genetic makeup we are different and we should have the same studies done to make up for those differences. Not to mention the studies that pertain only to women that still haven’t been done. We have so many questions that people either ignore, give simple solutions and brush off, or often we are given the answers based off a mans study and wonder why our result is not what was expected.
Couldn't agree more. A good example is the fact that many chronic illnesses (like chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia), and many autoimmune issues, affect more women than men... yet somehow, virtually nobody has investigated why this is, or how women's hormones are likely affecting these health issues. It's ridiculous!
@ name one study about women in physical science. It's pretty much across the medical board that women are treated as small hormonal men, and men are used for women's product studies all the time due to how supposedly we are too complicated to study. One of the reasons we're to complicated to study almost entirely comes from medical boards across the platform say "why study women when there's so much we don't know about men?" There's even medical studies about uterine cancer that's treated on men. Who've never had or never will have the organ that is the uterus. Nobody was saying women weren't as strong or as equal they're saying they're different, and shouldn't be expected to take the same medical advise as men and consider it the same quality of care because the same things were applied.
@google owns you Well you're right that they're not focused on much, but even within the research that's been done so far, the role of hormones, especially in women, has been almost entirely overlooked. I've only seen one stud that came out recently that tried to factor it in, even though women make up a really large chunk of people with the illness. That's what I mean to say.
I really, really wish the medical community would listen to this. Did you know they didn't even test the pill on women before releasing it? Because the hormones would get in the way. A UA-cam doctor even said women's medical issues aren't taken seriously because of the way women talk, and that WE need to fix this, not doctors needing to listen to their patients.
Yesss! Agreed! Literally have been dealing with this problem, trying to lose weight and it seems like each time I cut back on calories I lose my period (or there was that really fun time I have 3 in one month) and become really weak, fog brained, and irritable. My husband kept trying to convince me to do intermittent fasting to lose weight, and then I found some info that this type of fasting is not as effective with women and can even be harmful and cause infertility. There's so little info out there about it, I kept trying to do it and was probably just making myself sicker and more frustrated that I was left worse than I started off.
Having a 7 yr old girl has giving me a goal of the next four years to make sure I know everything I can about periods and sport ect so I can empower my children to make the right choices for them! Thank you Dr Stacy Sims, as a PT in training I will hopefully be specialising in women's training, specifically post natal but essentially all women! Thank you for bringing this to light!
Thank you for bringing up peri and post menopause. I am getting there and have completely lost the plot on diet and exercise. Things that had worked for me for decades do NOT work for me in the slightest and I’m fatigued, bloated, easily injured and gaining weight. I hate it so much after being a very fit person my whole life.
My Husband and I have been training for years... after about 15 years of trying different things, I found I need to eat, and eat well, carbs as well... Weight training and cardio evenly help me. Just after ovulation I get extra hungry for carbs, and I found that by adding some rice to my protein and veges helps me through a good workout. I find my best time for exercise is the week of my period. The worst is after ovulation and is kind of continues until I get my period. My husband never seems to fluctuate, and I get that. I understand my needs, and I use it to my advantage when I can.
A week before my period my body gets really hot. So when I'm working out. I find myself over heating much faster. So I have to slow down and my husband is like catch up. And I'm like I can't😥.
Same. I will actually wake up in the middle of the night sweating in the air conditioner! And low carb at that time of month will make me feel like I am literally on my death bed.
If you knew anything about women working out, you would skip the gyms! That's right women are not men, so stop gyming like you all are! It impacts on a woman's fertility and joints and cartridge later in life, good luck with them future knee replacements in your 50s. . Seems a world away to a misinformed 20 something, 30 something, 40 something The maker of Nike the brand, cattle like to Don, died because of his keep fit fad. Bodies are not made to be put through the grinder, like Hitlers wet dream of an arian superfit race, would have had us believe. The damage you and millions of other women are doing is detrimental and forever, good luck!
clicked to see if I should tease Trans Rights Activists with it. those have people in their ranks that want schools to teach about transwoman periods(yes, women, not let transboys and men know it's ok to have a period)
Thank you for not giving up on researching women and our uniqueness despite so many telling you that you were essentially crazy for even considering this line of research.
This woman is inspirational. The information she gives has really opened my eyes. Its about time women were seen for who they are in sport and science.
First of all, I didn't feel like this was a 13 minutes talk at all! She knows how to speak and everything she says is so interesting that I could listen to her for hours. Second, I would like to thank Stacy Sims for this talk because I have never thought about most of what she talked about. I always wanted to ignore periods and act like women don't have them. I was wrong. We need to talk about them and take them into consideration when planning out our lives, our exercising routine, our nutrition... Thank you again.
This is so needed. Women are made to feel inadequate in so many ways and forced to ignore the ebb and flow of our cycles (which is our greatest connection to nature). This essentially cuts us off from the wisdom and intuition that is our birth right. Not to mention how we beat ourselves up for not having one of those bodies that snaps back into shape after childbirth.
Judge Judy once said " You can choose to be defined by others or you can choose to define yourself". I dont know how you've been made to feel inadequate because you're a woman however, I suggest you ignore the influeneces which lead to those negative feelings.
@@MrSmokingpope It's not that easy, though. We're social animals. We are much healthier mentally and emotionally when we have the approval and acceptance of our chosen in groups. When we don't have those, it's very distressing and for some people it can lead to self-destructive behaviors. There is enormous pressure on individuals to conform to group norms. Telling people to ignore the social conditioning they experience from birth doesn't really address the issue: the social conditioning itself is harmful. That's the problem that needs to be addressed here: the narrative that female athletes should eat and train like male athletes and that interrupting their menstrual cycles is just the price female athletes have to pay for high performance.
Boy, this is Truth! I'm 61, I have always acknowledged my periods, and eaten good healthy meals. Now I do strength training and high intensity 60 min workouts a couple times per week, I add pilates, stretching and 30 min cardio after a high protein lunch on 4 other days. I get plenty of rest. I'm strong and have good balance. I've dropped 15 kilos in the past 2 years so I wear the same size 8 as in my 20s. But I think my waist is smaller now because of the standing ab work! 😊 Thank you for researching women's workouts and talking about it.🎉
Dr. Sims is such a tremendous asset to female athletes. I have been adding her protocols to my training and am seeing positive impacts in body composition, recovery and fitness. Women are NOT small men.
Being a personal trainer and specializing in women’s health... she is one of the best to follow. Women need to realize and own that they are different then train and feed their bodies accordingly. Love this movement!
Even in feminine sports like ballet losing your period is a sign of good sportmanship so we can all agree that it's not just the obese white males giving us a hard time, there's a cycle of toxic femininity and ignoring our body's basic functions to be addressed as well
A lot of people genuinely don't know, so they perpetuate a myth out of ignorance, not toxicity. As she pointed out, there is very limited research done on female athletes.
The fact that women and men have different physiology seems intuitive to me. I am genuinely shocked that acknowledging women have periods and training should be adjusted to accommodate them is breaking new science.
Not just training- women aren't getting the correct medical attention. Medicine is tested on men. There are certain drugs that are based on weight, and women will literally be given the "small man" dosage.
@@MissMiserize I will add to this - there have been some tries to make a male birth control pill. EVERY TIME it gets cancelled due to it causing the same issues that the female equivalent ROUTINELY does
I had a pulmonary embolism several years ago. A male doctor gave me a 30 minute speech about what to expect when taking blood thinners, yet failed to say anything about how being on blood thinners would affect the fact that I bleed every month. It was weird and unsettling.
@@bluenuttefly8813 tbf women's bc is usually "anti cancer, anti endo, treat menopause, oh hey it also stops babies as an accidental side effect" and nothing the men have tested have any benefit to outweigh it. When I got an IUD it was "without it you're going to be suicidal and if you get pregnant you could die, but with it you're going to be *near* suicidal and have cramping *like* being pregnant" With the mens' it was "this actually killed a couple test subjects, but if they don't take it they'll just need one outpatient procedure with the same benefit"
This is truly eye opening for me. I'm 50 years old and have always been active. I can't believe I didn't understand this before.... it's like a light bulb went on in my head!
@jord heinz Why would self identify as a man? I am a grandmother and totally female. And further more, I don't trust the AMA or Big Pharma. I hope poking fun at me has brought you joy. May you come back as a female in a male dominated world.
This talk and the book Roar are starting to change my life in terms of training, and how much my menstrual cycle impacts my life. It doesn't have to be a burden or something to dred every month! So grateful for the work Dr Stacey Sims is doing and I can't wait to learn more!
I feel overwhelmingly grateful that I've never really experienced shaming about my period. It was a very accepted thing in my childhood household, my guy friends didn't seem bothered or unsympathetic, my dad was accepting and kind... My mom was a nutritionist and personal trainer but also a big believer in taking cues from your body. So all athletic endeavors would be tweaked according to whatever variables we were dealing with that day. I'm glad there is more concrete knowledge of women's physiology being researched.
I have never had anyone shame me either. It might contribute to why I'm embarrassingly open about it. Like, if I have horrible cramps I am more than happy to ask anyone for panadol, and if they ask why I'll honestly tell them. I'm never ashamed to go to the counter to buy any products. And the one time I ordered them online with other groceries I also bought chocolate and they got delivered together in a little bag, so I think people are more understanding than we think.
Laura ball is right because all she was saying is common sense if we wanna look at it technically. She’s not just saying wamon wamon wamon, she’s saying that men and women are different, which is something that radical left people wouldn’t necessarily agree with. So she’s more on the side that y’all idiots are claiming to be on...
Dr Sims is a pocket rocket of knowledge. She has a rare gift of being able to transfer scientific studies and physiological concepts to accessible, everyday application. This TED talk with only whet your appetite for learning more. As a woman and a mum of two girls, I’m so grateful for the info that Dr Sims conveys that has been a game changer for me and will influence my kids. Women everywhere- athlete or not-can benefit from Dr Sims’ knowledge and insights.
Louder for the folks in the back! Your book is the go-to resource for the women's triathlon team I coach. Thank you for all you do to move the needle in understanding the amazing puzzle of the female athlete!
I remember an anatomy class in med school 8 years ago: the high expert (male) teacher was explaining the trajectory of some muscle and suddenly said "there's an anomaly to this because in women this muscle..." So apparently all women having a variation from male anatomy was an "anomaly"... 🤦
@@MaestroCipher He was explaining the trajectory of a muscle: from x bone to y bone, over z muscle and whatever. Then he said "there's an anomaly to this trajectory. In women (as in ALL women) this muscle divides in two and attaches to 2 different points in the bone..."
Totally amazing, a revolution has begun. This woman is the first (I know of) that has brought this incredible info into the world! Thank you so much! You have changed many female lives and will change 1000s more!
@@iamthat7351Trans men are bio female. What you meant is trans women and they are such a small population, and even smaller in sports, that it isn’t a point of worry.
Incredible talk. As a young female athlete, this all resonates with me, especially as I am on the journey of getting back to optimal health. Too much training, without understanding the consequences, I really want to be able to help prevent other women from experiencing this too. We are different! And there are a lot of factors to consider for the female athlete. So, thanks for your work and I will keep learning from you!
White Wild why are you the way that you are? are you lonely? do you feel like the world has let you down? i’m guessing you have never known love. best of luck in overcoming your mental impediments, sad and small stranger
@@christinawoosley2802 WW is clearly a misogynist, as evidenced by his view of women. That "keep her in the kitchen" mentality has thankfully faded for the most part over the past half century, though not without consequence. I will tread lightly here as there may be room for misinterpretation, and there are always counter arguments. The aging population of western countries is a direct result of empowered women. That is not to say that women should not have the ability to choose their own path, but someone needs to be caregiver. (Stay at home dad? Yes please.) Do we not have an obligation to procreate? Seems rather selfish to think otherwise. Family structure is almost absent these days. Two parent(gender irrelevant) households are necessary to teach young children how to treat one another. There are benefits to having both male and female role models, but that's another conversation entirely, and aunt/uncle/grandparents are viable substitutes in non-traditional households. Now that I've given a brief overview of how I feel on the subject in that long winded unrequested paragraph(feels good to vent sometimes), I'd like to address you directly. Is there any benefit to knocking someone down the way you did? Though you were quite polite in the most passive aggressive way possible, you took time out of your day to insult a stranger that hadn't addressed you at all. It seems as though you are implying that this person is potentially an incel of some sort. Even if that were the case, how would insulting him help at all? Isn't it possible that a few kind words could potentially change his opinion of women? Not likely, but something to think about. Why are you the way YOU are?
I've always wondered about why I followed the same routines as men but they never worked for me. I decided that I would just follow what my body wants but still this video is extremely informative. I used to play volleyball for a few years and after that I switched to swimming but as I started to go into puberty I gave up. I love being active but I don't feel good at all times.
weights are the key to muscle for women and actually upping the calories and not avoiding healthy fats. look at female powerlifters they can be very curvy but with flat abs. as a gym instructor i would actually say most women do way too much cardio when it should be more like an hour of weights and like 15-25mins cardio. i had my fiance trying to lose weight so i actually told her to not cut her calories and even eat more but just train weights 4 days a week. no cardio at first then add it in bit by bit to get to a stable bodyfat that is good for hormones not bad. the best way to train is upper body then lower 2x a week with a good routine slowly increasing strength.
@@djsubliminalreeve Jesus, at least one guy gets it. My husband keeps trying to tell me I should do all the same stuff as him to lose weight and then acts like I'm doing it wrong is why it's not working for me. We went long distance a little under a year, and I lost 20 lbs, and now we're living together and he's keeping buckets of sugary foods all over the house and I've gained all the weight back and steadily gaining more... and he keeps telling me I need to do intermittent fasting, and I lose my cycle (i know sry, tmi) which is like.. a sign of starvation! Anyway, I am just going to ignore him and do my own thing, now.
@@woodenkat8971: No...they're too busy denying any differences at all. Did you know, that according to a Democrat presidential candidate...trans women need access to abortions!?!
There's also variation between women. And I wouldn't have a problem talking about difference if the follow on comment from many wasn't "yeah and that's why women aren't as good". It's extremely annoying.
This is important information for all men with girlfriends, wives and daughters to know to help ensure they are the healthiest they can be a family members.
It was my first thought, I was honestly surprised it wasn't mentioned until so far in. I can't work out on the first day of my period (although already struggling to maintain iron makes everything harder too).
I currently train with my boyfriend. After watching this I have so much more insight exactly why we are so different. I want to continue learning so I can help myself improve
We need the research Dr. Sims is doing, and we need more people to get on board and recognize that women have different needs throughout their lives than men do. Thank you Dr. Sims for getting this information out in the open and making it more accessible.
This video made me find my thesis subject! Have that conversation!! We can work with our physiology!! In my own sportslife that was also dominated by men, my mindset has gone from the ideal being to not have my period as a sign of being "a really trained athlete" to doing all I can in favor of my body working with it. Gratefull for finding this video, and how it has made me want to educate myself on the topic!
Menstrual health is important, and it should not be ignored! After years of problems, I finally got to see a doctor about my debilitating pain, and now I have an answer. I received the news yesterday. It's not exactly good news, but at least I know what's happening to me.
@@sourabhs14 If you want equality will all have to be androgynous clones. Step one, we as a societee need to stop seeing the difference between men and women as a competition and simply acknowlege it as the reality of genetic predisposition.
We have to stop shaming women for being women. It’s ridiculous. I talk about my period like I talk about the weather. Normalize what it’s like for more than half the human population. Love you ladies!!🎉❤
Wow... I am doing sports as an amateur, but never thought about it before 😮 I was wondering why I do not recover like my brother or why I need extra sleep. Thank you so much ❤❤❤ I will spread the word
Damn, I for real always thought that women just had harder times losing weight cuz of biology, thats just how we are. 😥 thank you for schooling me and reminding me that women need more research done on them in general. And I'm glad its all happening now too, so major pluses there :)
@@amandasmith1198 As far as where kids are getting there ideas of how to act and the sheer numbers of porn...i didn't know. But I'm 39 so we learned the old school way.
@@amandasmith1198 - I think many of us recognize that men and women are physiologically different, though pop culture insist the differences are merely cultural. A case of politics overwriting science.
Truly fascinating! As trainers we are always taught that men and women should train the same way and we just accept the blanket approach. Definitely need more research in this area.
It's amazing that when my wife & I saw that doing identical things wasn't working for her. We decided do try changing it for what works for her. Low and behold, what works for me doesn't for her.
I wish my husband would give me the benefit of the doubt. He keeps telling me I should try intermittent fasting to lose weight, and I've gained more weight, lost my period or had 3 in one month, have horrible mood swings, fainting, etc. He just says I need to stick with it longer, and apparently at the expense of being able to have children !
@@miamazingness I don't know what your intermittent fasting consists of but mine is more of an eating window. First I did a seven day egg fast. Eggs any cooked any way for 7 days.w/cheese for fats. About 4-6 per day, 1 time. After that my intermittent fasting is 2 meals between 3-8 pm ( mostly veggies & meat or maybe subway) & as close as a gallon of water per day. Including 32-64oz of that first thing in the morning & coffee( blk) or tea. Egg fast 10 lbs. Intermittent 20lbs more gone. Carbonated water helps fill u up also...pellegrino
@@ronaldk.wileyjr.5476 Yeah, I was alternating between different length eating windows. I've heard of some women having luck with it, but in the morning if I don't eat pretty soon after I'm feeling the hunger pangs I will get nauseous and actually vomit green stuff (HAHA fun stuff, tmi). But my mom only eats one meal a day, so it could also just be an individual thing.
Bravo! This all makes so much sense after listening to Stacy, but I've never thought about it until then. Just ordered her book - can't wait to read it and start training and fueling the best way for a woman!
As a woman and an athlete, I couldn't resonate more with this talk. I've been through hormonal disbalances, eating disorders, among other things due to the wrong coaching approach. Our bodies are amazing but we have to sync with them and start listening to the signs! Not having a regular period is NOT normal. Great talk that especially every athlete, coach and parent should watch!
I was born in the early 1950s, got my 1st period at age 12 the summer after 6th grade.
My father, a physician, had given me a book on the facts of life, a gift from my grandfather (a physician) for my 11th birthday. The title "The Facts of Life".
I truly appreciated this gift although the book read more like a medical textbook than anything applicable to getting my 1st period.
It showed the biomedical mechanics of the male and female reproductive systems, mentioning the menstrual cycle and how a baby forms.
Zero guidance on how it feels to get your period or how to reckon with it.
My mother never prepared me for what to expect or do until I actually told her I'd gotten mine and asked what to do.
She offered me a sanitary belt and pads with little explanation.
It felt like something shrouded in shame.
Since my mother used pads, it was all she knew. And she had nothing further to add, no pep talk or silver lining.
Later, I was at my friend Kerry's house when I got my next period.
I felt so embarrassed to ask her if she had a spare pad.
She said no, she used tampons and asked if I wanted to try it.
I didn't have any details at all about tampons except magazine ads showing a nondescript box.
Then Kerry got her mom who explained everything in detail in the most open, kind manner without a hint of embarrassment.
She answered my many questions.
She even told me that light physical activity like walking helped calm cramps and strong emotions.
Her explanations were golden and so helpful. I was so grateful because it dispelled a lot of my concerns about what is normal.
When I left Kerry's house, I was wearing a tampon and had extras to figure out if they were for me.
I told my mom about the whole experience when I got home.
All the questions and concerns I'd had and the answers given.
I wanted her to know how this advice helped me.
I knew more about tampons than she did. When I realized this, it gave me compassion for her, a 37-year old school teacher who didn't know much about such things even after 17 years of marriage and giving birth.
This is when I began to truly understand how repressed many of the so-called Silent Generation were (my parents born after WW1 during the Depression).
They were too afraid to even ask questions. I can only imagine why that silence existed.
So interesting.
Thank you for sharing this story. ❤
Your empathy towards your mom as a teenager is so kind. It just healed something inside me. Thank you!
Sadly it has been like that for many women. I imagine pads and even tampons have been invented by men. Pads made me feel incontinent, like wearing diapers. Tampons dehydrate and thus can easily cause headaches. Since I started using a menstrual cup, live has been so much easier. I can do everything, even swim, go on holiday or to festivals without ever worrying about leaking, toilet bins or packing materials to refresh. It's still a topic people don't often talk about, but I found this change to be lifechanging. What if we handed out cups to poor women around the world. 9% of all waste is diapers. We could do so much better for ourselves.
@@sigridkingma961I love menstrual cups!! Wish they were more normalized. So much better for your bank and the environment too.
Women are not "difficult to study"...we make up half of the population and this is just the way we are. Thank you Dr. Sims for your work and for being a force of change!
If you think about it, it will in fact be more difficult to study women because of the cycles. It looks like our needs differ depending on where we are in the cycle, whereas men have the same needs constantly Because we need to take into account our needs as a function of the cycle, this will be more 'difficult' to study. But of course thats not a reason not to study it! We need way more health studies on women.
Not having your period is so normalized in sports, it's scary
It's the same amongst vegans. It isn't healthy.
@@birgittabirgersdatter8082 it is not normalized among vegans, women lose their period because they eat too little no matter diet and lifestyle. Stop spreading lies.
Daniel Jokela lol
@@littleDainolf there are actually a lot of vegan youtubers who think that the period is just detox and when you dont have it anymore you are "clean". I think freelee started that bs a few years ago, but I've seen it in other videos as well...
@@birgittabirgersdatter8082 Extreme straining is not healthy, for womens and for mens
*I've worked as an EMT and it's disturbing how little research there is on women's specific medical complications too, for example, the differing symptoms during cardiac events.*
Or the lack of education for pregnant and postpartum women. Also an EMT 🚑
PMS is also pre menstrual not during and is happens to men a few days a month (about every 28 days). PMS itself is a strangely western phenomenon.
But everyone can be a woman, how do you study that when thanks to the left any man can declare himself a woman and be one?
@@ADerpyReality why do you say that?
I've worked in traditional Aboriginal communities in Australia and they talk about PMS (they don't use the same words but it's the same symptoms) I know people in Asia and Africa who talk about it too.
ADerpyReality it’s not a western phenomenon.
I have learned more about women in the last 13 minutes and 45 seconds than i have in the last 40 years. We need to put a Stacy Sims in every school, not just for the kids but for the teachers to learn from too.
I agree!!! Check out her book called Roar it is amazing!
Women are NOT small men. So simple. So brilliant. So true.
Women are generally smaller than men though can you agree?
Josh Mcaloon we are generally smaller than men but that had nothing to do with us being smaller versions of men 😂 I don’t know if you understand that
@@SoniaAnastasiaaa women aren't smaller than men anymore!
@@ronnyraygunz8718 lol, does it matter?
@@caim3465 just clarifying!
The massive involuntary eyeroll I had when someone told her "women are an anomaly" lol. I loved this talk
True
It was unfortunate she undercut herself with her mental retort about 'men as anomaly'. So unhelpful.
@@inevski how so?
49% is not anomaly
The cheap laugh will be long forgotten and the bias she herself highlighted, this idea of 'loss of resources to women' prevails.
Uncalled for.
“we don’t study women” truer words cannot be spoken by health scientists. Ready for change. Thanks for your research 🙏🏻
Who is "WE", I thought women were being studied this entire time.
Wait then what's "women's studies?"
@@hangukhiphop looks like she needs to make a different poster now for the protest...
hangukhiphop mostly sociology and history, not health or necessarily biology. Which is a shame...
@Markfield Park most medical research is done exclusively on men, even at earlier stages even "mouse modelling" is done on male mice....
A lot of research that is classified as being for women is in obstetrics and is about securing better infant rather than maternal outcomes... So it really isn't about the women themselves....
Coaches who work with female athletes should be required to learn this information, especially in the NCAA collegiate system. It's been so gratifying to help the current generation of female athletes navigate their menstrual cycles through training with information in Dr. Sims book ROAR. Very excited for the updated research she will be releasing
me too!!!
My daughter dropped out of sport at 13 and I just didn’t have words to help her navigate through it. We’re going to watch this together.
This is a much broader problem in science. Most studies are conducted with men only to avoid irregularities, even though often those irregularities could be important for what is being studied.
I thought the exact same thing. I really hope this changes soon.
It's not a problem at all if you only go by men. Just make another test for women.
Considering women with periods are not an "irregularity" they should not be controlled out. If they're concerned about how it effects the data they should just track the cycle so they can manipulate the data with controls the same way they do for other variables.
@@CZ-dg7te why dont you do it claire if its so easy
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Do the same test with both genders yeah.
This was perfectly said. Women are women. My wife has been through the same thing that I think most wives have been through. Their husband can lose weight easier and it discourages her. We need more information like this so she can do what her body is supposed to do.
It depends on each person. Let’s stop generalizing
@Doven Ro Galus she didnt say she was perfect, hun
100%! I worked out with a guy, who gained tons of muscle.. I ate healthier, ate what I “needed” to gain muscle and it was so much slower gains. Like :(
Hormones are very much the difference between our bodies.
@@pugtortuga3406 wtf is wrong with you did you even watch the video
Pug Tortuga Different metabolisms matey. You're incorrect.
"Women are not small men" women are women, we have cycles, early in our cycle we can work hard, later in our cycle we need to rest more. We need to work with our bodies not against them!
loki don't be a dummy.
Megan, rightfully so knowing how your body works and using it not going against is the only way to reach you full potential.
We are so disconnected from our cycles and even worse, have no respect for them. In the some cultures, periods are celebrated and sacred. They dont try to ignore that something is happening. They dont try to numb and fight through it. They look at what is going on, see what needs to change to make it less painful(healthwise), they slow down and rest when it's appropriate. We need to respect our bodies! Something I am teaching my children.
@@denisebatalha3552 stefi cohen juices and is hot and strong.
The talk that women become manly on steroids is bogus.
@Loki Nebula someones appearance doesn't change how smart they are or how qualified they are.
rather listen to someone who went to school, got a PhD on the topic they are talking about than some random dude who cares so much about appearance.
everything you said about her appearance is subjective
@Loki Nebula don't know why everyone is on your case,,, she does look like a man... large brow ridge, wide shoulders, broad and flat chest, no waistline, narrow hips... that's a masculine body type
I didn't notice you saying it bothered you either, just made an observation, subjective maybe, but it fits what most people define as a masculine body type. So she's explaining why women don't typically look masculine EVEN when training... and blaming it on gender bias(?), as in this is how a female body works differently than a male body
If only this was concerning just sport and nutrition... almost all medical and psychological studies are done with the subjects being only men or men and women who are on hormonal contraceptives. Meaning the results are applicable to men and women who take hormonal contraceptives.
Why? Scientists want to avoid fluctuation to get clean results. The only problem is, that there IS fluctuation within the menstrual cycle and we HAVE to take it into consideration if we want to treat or analyse women.
Imagine a guy testing women's birth control lol. Wtf would that do for them?
The least talked about difference between men and women, and yet it is the MOST significant. Thank you for bringing awareness to women and the scary word... period. 🙏🏼
This is the reason why I want to study women’s health. People always say what is there to study about women. I say EVERYTHING if you look at almost all general case studies and scientific research regarding the human mind and body a mass majority of the research is going to have been originally based on men or entirely based on men and equally applied to women with little to no adjustment. I don’t understand how scientists and physicians can deny the fact that the biological differences mean something and thus affect us different. Down to our genetic makeup we are different and we should have the same studies done to make up for those differences. Not to mention the studies that pertain only to women that still haven’t been done. We have so many questions that people either ignore, give simple solutions and brush off, or often we are given the answers based off a mans study and wonder why our result is not what was expected.
" People always say what is there to study about women"
Literally NO ONE says this.
Couldn't agree more. A good example is the fact that many chronic illnesses (like chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia), and many autoimmune issues, affect more women than men... yet somehow, virtually nobody has investigated why this is, or how women's hormones are likely affecting these health issues. It's ridiculous!
@ name one study about women in physical science. It's pretty much across the medical board that women are treated as small hormonal men, and men are used for women's product studies all the time due to how supposedly we are too complicated to study. One of the reasons we're to complicated to study almost entirely comes from medical boards across the platform say "why study women when there's so much we don't know about men?"
There's even medical studies about uterine cancer that's treated on men. Who've never had or never will have the organ that is the uterus. Nobody was saying women weren't as strong or as equal they're saying they're different, and shouldn't be expected to take the same medical advise as men and consider it the same quality of care because the same things were applied.
gender studies destroyed women
@google owns you Well you're right that they're not focused on much, but even within the research that's been done so far, the role of hormones, especially in women, has been almost entirely overlooked. I've only seen one stud that came out recently that tried to factor it in, even though women make up a really large chunk of people with the illness. That's what I mean to say.
Women and men are not the same. Crazy this has to be said on any intellect level... Great speech!
The important bit is where you go with this claim.
@@absentminded7230 Perhaps the best solution is, everybody is different, so do what you want, but don't forcibly drag everybody with you.
TrulyStupidNewb can you furnish your claim with a concrete example? So I can better understand where you’re coming from.
I really, really wish the medical community would listen to this. Did you know they didn't even test the pill on women before releasing it? Because the hormones would get in the way.
A UA-cam doctor even said women's medical issues aren't taken seriously because of the way women talk, and that WE need to fix this, not doctors needing to listen to their patients.
It has not been politically correct to point out ways that women are different from men. This focus on men alone seems like an accidental conspiracy.
Please we need to move this research forward! Women's bodies are uniquely different from men and must be acknowledged.
No there's no difference at all! We are equal, do you get it bigot!
@@brute9867 of course you are pretending not to know that equality is not about being the same biologically.
Yesss! Agreed! Literally have been dealing with this problem, trying to lose weight and it seems like each time I cut back on calories I lose my period (or there was that really fun time I have 3 in one month) and become really weak, fog brained, and irritable. My husband kept trying to convince me to do intermittent fasting to lose weight, and then I found some info that this type of fasting is not as effective with women and can even be harmful and cause infertility. There's so little info out there about it, I kept trying to do it and was probably just making myself sicker and more frustrated that I was left worse than I started off.
@@florzinnha There is no such thing as equal in biological beings. There is only equal opportunity.
@@florzinnha Don't worry, you won't have to worry about this "problematic" issue much longer will all be androgynous clones one day
So happy to have Dr. Stacy Simms as a resource for women's physiology and performance!
Having a 7 yr old girl has giving me a goal of the next four years to make sure I know everything I can about periods and sport ect so I can empower my children to make the right choices for them! Thank you Dr Stacy Sims, as a PT in training I will hopefully be specialising in women's training, specifically post natal but essentially all women! Thank you for bringing this to light!
Thank you for bringing up peri and post menopause. I am getting there and have completely lost the plot on diet and exercise. Things that had worked for me for decades do NOT work for me in the slightest and I’m fatigued, bloated, easily injured and gaining weight. I hate it so much after being a very fit person my whole life.
You may also benefit from reading 'What your Doctor may not tell you about Pre-Menopause' by Drs John Lee and Jesse Hanley..excellent book.
“Taking her own physiology and working with it” ... words to train by 😻
literally as soon as she said that i went to write it in my journal
@MegaMarkolio Sometimes obvious things don't occur to us, especially when everyone is doing the opposite.
My Husband and I have been training for years... after about 15 years of trying different things, I found I need to eat, and eat well, carbs as well... Weight training and cardio evenly help me. Just after ovulation I get extra hungry for carbs, and I found that by adding some rice to my protein and veges helps me through a good workout. I find my best time for exercise is the week of my period. The worst is after ovulation and is kind of continues until I get my period. My husband never seems to fluctuate, and I get that. I understand my needs, and I use it to my advantage when I can.
Oh yes same! I'm super lucky to not have period cramps. But my workouts are also always the best during my period.
This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing.
Same!
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!! Dr Sims’ advice will change your life!
As a female athlete, this is GAME CHANGING! Allowing women to reach new heights within our sports
A week before my period my body gets really hot. So when I'm working out. I find myself over heating much faster. So I have to slow down and my husband is like catch up. And I'm like I can't😥.
Same. I will actually wake up in the middle of the night sweating in the air conditioner! And low carb at that time of month will make me feel like I am literally on my death bed.
I know. We should all stop our reproductive cycles completely. We don't need any more children. We can replace ourselves via immigration.
@@LEO-xo9cz replace yourself with who ever you wish Sir. I'm sure immigrants would love to be you.👍 As for the rest of us. No We're good💅
@@trishse4030 Dear Trish it was sarcasm.
If you knew anything about women working out, you would skip the gyms! That's right women are not men, so stop gyming like you all are! It impacts on a woman's fertility and joints and cartridge later in life, good luck with them future knee replacements in your 50s. . Seems a world away to a misinformed 20 something, 30 something, 40 something
The maker of Nike the brand, cattle like to Don, died because of his keep fit fad.
Bodies are not made to be put through the grinder, like Hitlers wet dream of an arian superfit race, would have had us believe.
The damage you and millions of other women are doing is detrimental and forever, good luck!
Clicked because of the muscles, stayed for the speech.
Same
Lol yeah, those are impressive. Was gonna say on a woman, but naw, that tone is enviable. I’m not quite there yet myself
@Joe Bee She's an athlete. What do you expect?
@Joe Bee lol
clicked to see if I should tease Trans Rights Activists with it. those have people in their ranks that want schools to teach about transwoman periods(yes, women, not let transboys and men know it's ok to have a period)
As a running coach and therapist working on body positivity, I find this information so valuable. Thank you!
Thank you for not giving up on researching women and our uniqueness despite so many telling you that you were essentially crazy for even considering this line of research.
This woman is inspirational. The information she gives has really opened my eyes. Its about time women were seen for who they are in sport and science.
First of all, I didn't feel like this was a 13 minutes talk at all! She knows how to speak and everything she says is so interesting that I could listen to her for hours. Second, I would like to thank Stacy Sims for this talk because I have never thought about most of what she talked about. I always wanted to ignore periods and act like women don't have them. I was wrong. We need to talk about them and take them into consideration when planning out our lives, our exercising routine, our nutrition... Thank you again.
This is so needed. Women are made to feel inadequate in so many ways and forced to ignore the ebb and flow of our cycles (which is our greatest connection to nature). This essentially cuts us off from the wisdom and intuition that is our birth right.
Not to mention how we beat ourselves up for not having one of those bodies that snaps back into shape after childbirth.
The women's body is miraculous. We grow tiny humans inside us.
Judge Judy once said " You can choose to be defined by others or you can choose to define yourself". I dont know how you've been made to feel inadequate because you're a woman however, I suggest you ignore the influeneces which lead to those negative feelings.
@@MrSmokingpope very true but I think we all have trouble doing that from time to time
@@MrSmokingpope It's not that easy, though. We're social animals. We are much healthier mentally and emotionally when we have the approval and acceptance of our chosen in groups. When we don't have those, it's very distressing and for some people it can lead to self-destructive behaviors. There is enormous pressure on individuals to conform to group norms.
Telling people to ignore the social conditioning they experience from birth doesn't really address the issue: the social conditioning itself is harmful.
That's the problem that needs to be addressed here: the narrative that female athletes should eat and train like male athletes and that interrupting their menstrual cycles is just the price female athletes have to pay for high performance.
Real talk from real women. Love it!
Boy, this is Truth! I'm 61, I have always acknowledged my periods, and eaten good healthy meals. Now I do strength training and high intensity 60 min workouts a couple times per week, I add pilates, stretching and 30 min cardio after a high protein lunch on 4 other days. I get plenty of rest. I'm strong and have good balance. I've dropped 15 kilos in the past 2 years so I wear the same size 8 as in my 20s. But I think my waist is smaller now because of the standing ab work! 😊 Thank you for researching women's workouts and talking about it.🎉
Brilliant as always by Dr Stacy Sims. Women need to watch this please!!!
Dr. Sims is such a tremendous asset to female athletes. I have been adding her protocols to my training and am seeing positive impacts in body composition, recovery and fitness. Women are NOT small men.
Being a personal trainer and specializing in women’s health... she is one of the best to follow. Women need to realize and own that they are different then train and feed their bodies accordingly. Love this movement!
Even in feminine sports like ballet losing your period is a sign of good sportmanship so we can all agree that it's not just the obese white males giving us a hard time, there's a cycle of toxic femininity and ignoring our body's basic functions to be addressed as well
She didn't say anything about them being white.
Omnipitous maybe not, but that's always the narrative.
A lot of people genuinely don't know, so they perpetuate a myth out of ignorance, not toxicity. As she pointed out, there is very limited research done on female athletes.
Ballet is not a feminine sport.
@@jusmaku Isn't it ironic. The zeitgeist throws in the word white as if it were a natural continuance. That is a problem, and it is insidious.
The fact that women and men have different physiology seems intuitive to me. I am genuinely shocked that acknowledging women have periods and training should be adjusted to accommodate them is breaking new science.
Not just training- women aren't getting the correct medical attention. Medicine is tested on men. There are certain drugs that are based on weight, and women will literally be given the "small man" dosage.
@@MissMiserize I will add to this - there have been some tries to make a male birth control pill. EVERY TIME it gets cancelled due to it causing the same issues that the female equivalent ROUTINELY does
I had a pulmonary embolism several years ago. A male doctor gave me a 30 minute speech about what to expect when taking blood thinners, yet failed to say anything about how being on blood thinners would affect the fact that I bleed every month. It was weird and unsettling.
@@bluenuttefly8813
Or even very minor issues compared to women's contraceptive drugs
@@bluenuttefly8813 tbf women's bc is usually "anti cancer, anti endo, treat menopause, oh hey it also stops babies as an accidental side effect" and nothing the men have tested have any benefit to outweigh it.
When I got an IUD it was "without it you're going to be suicidal and if you get pregnant you could die, but with it you're going to be *near* suicidal and have cramping *like* being pregnant"
With the mens' it was "this actually killed a couple test subjects, but if they don't take it they'll just need one outpatient procedure with the same benefit"
‘Women have periods’. The fact that this needs to be said is disturbing. Great talk.
right?
Now a days men can have periods too 🤣
I dont think anyone needs to say this... but they do
thank you science. nobody knew about menstruation prior to today. you're truly doing God's work.
@@sumdumbmick
It baffles me that some women feel the need to make this a career.
This is truly eye opening for me. I'm 50 years old and have always been active. I can't believe I didn't understand this before.... it's like a light bulb went on in my head!
Expanding on your message, I'd like medications to be tested on woman as well as men. I am not a small man, I am a small woman.
yes! amazing and work equipment for women too!
To test it on women, women have to VOLUNTEER. So, volunteer yourself.
@@jackdeniston9326 Since I am physically healthy and not on medications, what am I supposed to volunteer for? Prostate cancer?
@jord heinz Why would self identify as a man? I am a grandmother and totally female. And further more, I don't trust the AMA or Big Pharma. I hope poking fun at me has brought you joy. May you come back as a female in a male dominated world.
I'm a dude, 175 lbs, sensitive to meds. Just sayin'.
So great that this is finally out there for girls and women!
Jasmine Carlson yesss!!! Me too!
Thank you so much for this talk. It made me cry because I‘ve been there and done that and always felt bad about myself and my body.
me too!!!!
This talk and the book Roar are starting to change my life in terms of training, and how much my menstrual cycle impacts my life. It doesn't have to be a burden or something to dred every month! So grateful for the work Dr Stacey Sims is doing and I can't wait to learn more!
I feel overwhelmingly grateful that I've never really experienced shaming about my period. It was a very accepted thing in my childhood household, my guy friends didn't seem bothered or unsympathetic, my dad was accepting and kind... My mom was a nutritionist and personal trainer but also a big believer in taking cues from your body. So all athletic endeavors would be tweaked according to whatever variables we were dealing with that day. I'm glad there is more concrete knowledge of women's physiology being researched.
I have never had anyone shame me either. It might contribute to why I'm embarrassingly open about it. Like, if I have horrible cramps I am more than happy to ask anyone for panadol, and if they ask why I'll honestly tell them.
I'm never ashamed to go to the counter to buy any products. And the one time I ordered them online with other groceries I also bought chocolate and they got delivered together in a little bag, so I think people are more understanding than we think.
You are blessed. It's not this way for too many girls and young women.
I appreciate that there's someone out there doing this research. Will be reading your book, Dr. Sims!
'Women are Not Small Men'
what a time to be alive...
Yeah, cringeworthy
@TJD 512016 Wow, what your professor said is scary :o
@Loki Nebula Why are you lying?
@Laura Ball "women have period" ;)
Laura ball is right because all she was saying is common sense if we wanna look at it technically. She’s not just saying wamon wamon wamon, she’s saying that men and women are different, which is something that radical left people wouldn’t necessarily agree with. So she’s more on the side that y’all idiots are claiming to be on...
Dr Sims is a pocket rocket of knowledge. She has a rare gift of being able to transfer scientific studies and physiological concepts to accessible, everyday application. This TED talk with only whet your appetite for learning more. As a woman and a mum of two girls, I’m so grateful for the info that Dr Sims conveys that has been a game changer for me and will influence my kids. Women everywhere- athlete or not-can benefit from Dr Sims’ knowledge and insights.
Absolutely love her book 'ROAR' and her nutrition advice for perimenopausal women like myself ❤️
YES, PLEASE, AND THANK YOU!! We need MORE of this. All of this. Research. Advocacy. Support. Amazing talk from an amazing woman. PERIOD.
Louder for the folks in the back! Your book is the go-to resource for the women's triathlon team I coach. Thank you for all you do to move the needle in understanding the amazing puzzle of the female athlete!
What's her book?
Francesca Taphophilia ROAR - highly recommend!
I remember an anatomy class in med school 8 years ago: the high expert (male) teacher was explaining the trajectory of some muscle and suddenly said "there's an anomaly to this because in women this muscle..." So apparently all women having a variation from male anatomy was an "anomaly"... 🤦
In the 21st century. Shameful. It isn't named!!! Run out Latin phrases.
@@deacondawg1416 What exactly you call shamefull?
@@MaestroCipher He was explaining the trajectory of a muscle: from x bone to y bone, over z muscle and whatever. Then he said "there's an anomaly to this trajectory. In women (as in ALL women) this muscle divides in two and attaches to 2 different points in the bone..."
@@MaestroCipher That they still use Victorian standards despite all our medical technology. Dont get high and mighty with me!
@@Zzmora I agree, that is a poor choice of words (at least). Teacher should say: this one women muscle have a different structure than men and so on.
Totally amazing, a revolution has begun. This woman is the first (I know of) that has brought this incredible info into the world! Thank you so much! You have changed many female lives and will change 1000s more!
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No.
Women and men are biologically different. I think all sane people can agree on this.
Yes sane people! But today we have trans Men competing in women's sports. Seems they don't give 2 shits about our biological differences.
@@iamthat7351
Your dear presenter is a big supporter of that
@@iamthat7351 I don't think you understand the full scientific history of trans athletes in sports.. you're embarrassing yourself.
@@iamthat7351Trans men are bio female. What you meant is trans women and they are such a small population, and even smaller in sports, that it isn’t a point of worry.
Thankful for Roar! Adding to my education to help not only myself, but the women I train!
This is a wonderful speech. It resonates on every level.
Can't believe that i am 45 yrs old and only now learning this stuff, thank you so much for the information 👍
Incredible talk. As a young female athlete, this all resonates with me, especially as I am on the journey of getting back to optimal health. Too much training, without understanding the consequences, I really want to be able to help prevent other women from experiencing this too. We are different! And there are a lot of factors to consider for the female athlete. So, thanks for your work and I will keep learning from you!
Thanks for paving the way & normalizing the conversation
YASSSSS!!! More of this! More women only studies! More awareness! More conversation! Roar has changed so much of my training and awareness!
me: ted talks are hit or miss
sees this woman's physique: i'm pretty sure she knows what she's talkin about
S.A.M.E
White Wild why are you the way that you are? are you lonely? do you feel like the world has let you down? i’m guessing you have never known love. best of luck in overcoming your mental impediments, sad and small stranger
@White Wild ohhhhhh boy, you got a big storm comin'. Go off, but we will tell you how awful you sound.
@@christinawoosley2802 WW is clearly a misogynist, as evidenced by his view of women. That "keep her in the kitchen" mentality has thankfully faded for the most part over the past half century, though not without consequence. I will tread lightly here as there may be room for misinterpretation, and there are always counter arguments. The aging population of western countries is a direct result of empowered women. That is not to say that women should not have the ability to choose their own path, but someone needs to be caregiver. (Stay at home dad? Yes please.) Do we not have an obligation to procreate? Seems rather selfish to think otherwise. Family structure is almost absent these days. Two parent(gender irrelevant) households are necessary to teach young children how to treat one another. There are benefits to having both male and female role models, but that's another conversation entirely, and aunt/uncle/grandparents are viable substitutes in non-traditional households.
Now that I've given a brief overview of how I feel on the subject in that long winded unrequested paragraph(feels good to vent sometimes), I'd like to address you directly.
Is there any benefit to knocking someone down the way you did? Though you were quite polite in the most passive aggressive way possible, you took time out of your day to insult a stranger that hadn't addressed you at all. It seems as though you are implying that this person is potentially an incel of some sort. Even if that were the case, how would insulting him help at all? Isn't it possible that a few kind words could potentially change his opinion of women? Not likely, but something to think about.
Why are you the way YOU are?
You go girl 😁
I've always wondered about why I followed the same routines as men but they never worked for me. I decided that I would just follow what my body wants but still this video is extremely informative. I used to play volleyball for a few years and after that I switched to swimming but as I started to go into puberty I gave up. I love being active but I don't feel good at all times.
weights are the key to muscle for women and actually upping the calories and not avoiding healthy fats. look at female powerlifters they can be very curvy but with flat abs. as a gym instructor i would actually say most women do way too much cardio when it should be more like an hour of weights and like 15-25mins cardio. i had my fiance trying to lose weight so i actually told her to not cut her calories and even eat more but just train weights 4 days a week. no cardio at first then add it in bit by bit to get to a stable bodyfat that is good for hormones not bad. the best way to train is upper body then lower 2x a week with a good routine slowly increasing strength.
Im a boi but ima preserve this video so dat my sis can benefit from it if she goes into sports
@@djsubliminalreeve Jesus, at least one guy gets it. My husband keeps trying to tell me I should do all the same stuff as him to lose weight and then acts like I'm doing it wrong is why it's not working for me. We went long distance a little under a year, and I lost 20 lbs, and now we're living together and he's keeping buckets of sugary foods all over the house and I've gained all the weight back and steadily gaining more... and he keeps telling me I need to do intermittent fasting, and I lose my cycle (i know sry, tmi) which is like.. a sign of starvation! Anyway, I am just going to ignore him and do my own thing, now.
i want her to be my trainer, love that she explains everything so thoroughly
me too! Read her book it is amazing
Love Dr. Sims empowering women everyday ❤❤❤
Love love love Dr. Stacy Sims. What an amazing talk!
Women and men are different. Nothing wrong w that
Jim Kennedy you got that right !
Yep! Only thing wrong is that no one wants to really look at the physiological differences!
@@woodenkat8971: No...they're too busy denying any differences at all. Did you know, that according to a Democrat presidential candidate...trans women need access to abortions!?!
unless you are a tucute
There's also variation between women. And I wouldn't have a problem talking about difference if the follow on comment from many wasn't "yeah and that's why women aren't as good". It's extremely annoying.
This was soooo interesting. As a man I never even thought about the impact of periods on woman regarding sports (I never had one lol).
I think most men are in the same group!
crooks d. jango try to see where else you can use your imagination
This is important information for all men with girlfriends, wives and daughters to know to help ensure they are the healthiest they can be a family members.
It was my first thought, I was honestly surprised it wasn't mentioned until so far in. I can't work out on the first day of my period (although already struggling to maintain iron makes everything harder too).
@@policious you're so smart... here's a cookie
I currently train with my boyfriend. After watching this I have so much more insight exactly why we are so different. I want to continue learning so I can help myself improve
Thank you for your research and being an advocate for women athletes!
Stacy Sims is amazing!!! What a significant leader in women athletic research!!! This is just a snipet, her book is even better!!!
Dr Stacy Sims and her science/research/recommendations have been a total game changer for me!
Alison Scofield
Oh yeah?
Can you elaborate?
"why do we need to study women separately?"
uh, because they're separate i-
@ ...we are equal as people but we are not the same, physically.
Cristian Proust dude, the brain is part of the organism and women and men are uniquely different, no matter how equal or unequal their brains are.
@ dude what are you smoking
Yes Yes Yes! More of this!!! Thank you for paving the way for gender equity in sports nutrition and sports science research!
Keep doing this important work! From women all over the world---thank you!
We need the research Dr. Sims is doing, and we need more people to get on board and recognize that women have different needs throughout their lives than men do. Thank you Dr. Sims for getting this information out in the open and making it more accessible.
This video made me find my thesis subject! Have that conversation!! We can work with our physiology!! In my own sportslife that was also dominated by men, my mindset has gone from the ideal being to not have my period as a sign of being "a really trained athlete" to doing all I can in favor of my body working with it. Gratefull for finding this video, and how it has made me want to educate myself on the topic!
Menstrual health is important, and it should not be ignored! After years of problems, I finally got to see a doctor about my debilitating pain, and now I have an answer. I received the news yesterday. It's not exactly good news, but at least I know what's happening to me.
Hormone , blood count , body structure , even brain structure is little bit diff for man and woman...we are surely diff than each other..
Hehe I can tell you've done some work in the blood bank gurl. Love it
The real question is where do you draw the line of equality, for a hamonious co-existence.
@@sourabhs14 If you want equality will all have to be androgynous clones.
Step one, we as a societee need to stop seeing the difference between men and women as a competition and simply acknowlege it as the reality of genetic predisposition.
Hate speech!
@@sourabhs14 equal rights and opportunities..simple
This was eye opening! A must listen for woman of all ages, spouses and ideally coaches of woman.
So grateful for your work and the tenacity you’ve shown standing up for it. Thank you!!!
THANK YOU! Finally actual science for women.
I wish this was longer!! So intriguing and it’s about time!
join her online course and get this for over 35+ hours - it's amazing
There's lots of talks online of Dr Sims
Thank you forever for initiating this change in female sport.
So thankful for women in science who are progressing this research!
I love you so much Stacy Sims!! You have changed my perspective of women’s sports! Thank you so much!!
Yay- HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) we’re finally talking about it. Welcome!
We have to stop shaming women for being women. It’s ridiculous.
I talk about my period like I talk about the weather. Normalize what it’s like for more than half the human population.
Love you ladies!!🎉❤
Thank you thank you thank you Dr Stacy Sims! This conversation needs to be amplified.
YES!!
All the information I wish I would've known. Thank you Dr. Sims for following your passion and proving to us that women are not small men!
Wow... I am doing sports as an amateur, but never thought about it before 😮 I was wondering why I do not recover like my brother or why I need extra sleep.
Thank you so much ❤❤❤ I will spread the word
Damn, I for real always thought that women just had harder times losing weight cuz of biology, thats just how we are. 😥 thank you for schooling me and reminding me that women need more research done on them in general. And I'm glad its all happening now too, so major pluses there :)
Even if you do use your cycle to help with your training the fact that women will lose weight and gain muscle slower than men will always be true.
Isn't your original presupposition still true though?
@@winstonz reality doesn't matter to misandrists.
misandrists? lol
Thank you so much for educating us Dr. Sims, you are truly making a huge impact.
Outstanding. This woman applied common sense to understand the difference between men and women
Haha! It's strangely uplifting to me as a young 21 year old lady, common sense or no common sense ;)
Unfortunately it's not commonly known, which is why this information is such a big deal. How much of what she shared did you already know?
@@amandasmith1198 As far as where kids are getting there ideas of how to act and the sheer numbers of porn...i didn't know. But I'm 39 so we learned the old school way.
@@amandasmith1198 - I think many of us recognize that men and women are physiologically different, though pop culture insist the differences are merely cultural. A case of politics overwriting science.
So.... what does she tell transwomen?
Truly fascinating! As trainers we are always taught that men and women should train the same way and we just accept the blanket approach. Definitely need more research in this area.
yup!
I love the tenacity Stacy shares. And her desire to find the why behind how women work. Her chatter is so insightful.
I look forward to learning more.
It's amazing that when my wife & I saw that doing identical things wasn't working for her. We decided do try changing it for what works for her. Low and behold, what works for me doesn't for her.
I wish my husband would give me the benefit of the doubt. He keeps telling me I should try intermittent fasting to lose weight, and I've gained more weight, lost my period or had 3 in one month, have horrible mood swings, fainting, etc. He just says I need to stick with it longer, and apparently at the expense of being able to have children !
@@miamazingness I don't know what your intermittent fasting consists of but mine is more of an eating window. First I did a seven day egg fast. Eggs any cooked any way for 7 days.w/cheese for fats. About 4-6 per day, 1 time. After that my intermittent fasting is 2 meals between 3-8 pm ( mostly veggies & meat or maybe subway) & as close as a gallon of water per day. Including 32-64oz of that first thing in the morning & coffee( blk) or tea. Egg fast 10 lbs. Intermittent 20lbs more gone. Carbonated water helps fill u up also...pellegrino
Arielle Macuch There is a great Thomas Delauer youtube video about why women shouldn’t intermittent fast everyday!
@@ronaldk.wileyjr.5476 Yeah, I was alternating between different length eating windows. I've heard of some women having luck with it, but in the morning if I don't eat pretty soon after I'm feeling the hunger pangs I will get nauseous and actually vomit green stuff (HAHA fun stuff, tmi). But my mom only eats one meal a day, so it could also just be an individual thing.
@@blueseptember2174 I'll have to check that out. Was thinking maybe I'm doing something wrong!
Very important and powerful speech! Thank you for your work Dr. Stacy Sims!!!!!
Bravo! This all makes so much sense after listening to Stacy, but I've never thought about it until then. Just ordered her book - can't wait to read it and start training and fueling the best way for a woman!
Yes I agree!!!
Can you give a 'review'; is it easy to understand, and does it contain a lot of specific information? :)
As a woman and an athlete, I couldn't resonate more with this talk. I've been through hormonal disbalances, eating disorders, among other things due to the wrong coaching approach. Our bodies are amazing but we have to sync with them and start listening to the signs! Not having a regular period is NOT normal. Great talk that especially every athlete, coach and parent should watch!
This is powerful and necessary for all women to watch!