Andrew Huberman· PhD
You mentioned that if women exercise beyond a certain threshold, uh they stop menrating and that it's because there's not enough energy essentially to menrate.
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You mentioned that if women exercise beyond a certain threshold, uh they stop menrating and that it's because there's not enough energy essentially to menrate.
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Uh there's a condition called reds. It's relative energy deficiency in sport. And basically the body is very smart. If it thinks like there's not enough energy around to support a pregnancy because we're expending it all on this exercise, we're just going to like shut the whole thing down. And it works really well, but the patient stops menrating.
When women are excessively endurance training and in a severe caloric deficit and they become a menoretic, right? So, they're essentially not ovulating anymore.
if you are not fueling adequately and with the right fuel, micronutrient density, macro aotment, the uh how much of it is like carbs versus fat versus protein. Yeah, you could absolutely exercise yourself into a uh state of hypoganism easily.