Throwback: Dr Stacy Sims on Why Women Should Not Fast, Should Eat More Carbs and Lift Heavy Weights

This episode from Season 4 remains one of my and your favourite conversations of the podcast so I am re-releasing it today for our new followers). If you have ever been told to fast, cut your carbs, or stick to light weights then this episode is honestly going to change everything you thought you knew. Dr Stacy Sims is a world-renowned physiologist, nutrition scientist, and applied researcher who has dedicated her career to the mission of understanding and communicating the profound differences between male and female physiology, and making sure women stop being treated as smaller versions of men. She is the author of ROAR and Next Level, the host of a TED talk entitled ‘Women Are Not Small Men’ that has now been viewed nearly half a million times, and one of the most important voices in women's health and performance science today. In this conversation (which is honestly one of my personal favourites!) Stacy dismantles some of the most pervasive myths in the health and wellness world right now. Intermittent fasting for women? The research does not support it. Zone two training? Women are already oxidatively capable. They need intensity, not more long slow work. Light weights? Absolutely not. Women need to lift heavy, especially as they age and oestrogen declines. Carbs? Essential and absolutely not the enemy. This is the conversation everyone needs to hear. In this episode: Why women's results were being thrown out as anomalies in research labs and why that still happens today The critical difference between time restricted eating and intermittent fasting and why only one of them works for women Why fasted training causes women to burn muscle not fat and what actually happens in the hypothalamus The truth about carbohydrates for women why we need them, when to eat them, and how that changes around menopause Why women need 1.6 to 2.3 grammes of protein per kilogramme of bodyweight daily and why the current RDA is based on sedentary old men Why lifting heavy is non-negotiable for women especially after 40 and what heavy actually means Zone two training and why women should stop spending hours there and go high intensity instead Tracking your menstrual cycle - why it matters, which apps actually work, and why most wearables are reading female physiology incorrectly Why periods are ergogenic aids and Stacy's vision for a world where women understand and work with their own physiology 🎧 When Life Gives You Lemons - available on all podcast platforms Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.