The Bodcast Kenya - The Menstrual Cycle

On this episode of the Bodcast we are honoured to be joined by Victoria Felkar to discuss the menstrual cycle.

Victoria is an amazing educator and researcher, working across a multitude of fields from kinesiology to sport medicine and the humanities. She is currently working on her doctorate on Women’s health and female hormone manipulation within sport medicine.

Whilst we are in the 21st Century, it is mind blowing how little we still know about the menstrual cycle and that in many places it is a taboo topic. We have wanted to have a professional to discuss this topic for some time as we feel it is so important for men and women to know more.

Victoria takes us step by step through the menstrual cycle, talking through the hormones, what is healthy and what to look out for. We discuss whether it is useful to programme training according to cycle phase and touch briefly on birth control.

We HIGHLY recommend you download this and start tracking your cycle.

Men- download or send to the ladies in your life!

We really hope you enjoy this episode and find it useful and we would love to have Victoria back to talk more about steroid use (including birth control) for women.

Sound cloud:

https://soundcloud.com/thebodcastke/the-menstrual-cycle-with-victoria-felkar

Coaches Corner - Female Hormones and Birth Control

In episode 31 of coaches corner we talk to Victoria Felkar a researcher and educator specializing in women's health and female hormone manipulation within sport and medicine. We touch on the role of birth control with health and performance. She dives into some key principles on how to right the ship focusing on nutrition, sleep, and lifestyle changes before diving into the realm of supplements. This episode has so many great nuggets of information it is worth listening to with a pen and paper ready to go.

Subscribe to iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, and Stitcher at Coaches Corner. If you like the podcast leave a review and a 5-star rating on iTunes. Share it with a friend and all over social media.

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-689144273/victoria-felkar-female-hormones-and-birth-control?si=570b0dc1eefc41ab9d7265842dd3f922

Youtube: https://youtu.be/h8cyBOyR26k

LoCo Fit: Birth Control

I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to chat with my very good friend and colleague, the one and only Laurin Conlin - Owner of @teamlocofit, IFBB Bikini Pro, MS Exercise Science, and all around badass.

This video is the second in a two-episode video podcast on women’s health. Specifically, we discuss hormonal contraceptives - diving into different types of hormonal agents and their impact on female reproductive health and the body.

Birth control is a hot topic. In this video, me and Victoria cover a small fraction of the birth control topic. Like our menstrual cycle video, this is a ver...

Enjoy!

Learn more about Laurin and LoCo Fit
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FB: @laurinconlin

LoCo Fit: Menstrual Cycle Health

I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to chat with my very good friend and colleague, the one and only Laurin Conlin - Owner of @teamlocofit, IFBB Bikini Pro, MS Exercise Science, and all around badass.

This video is the first in a two-episode video podcast on women’s health. Specifically, we discuss women's menstrual cycle health, regularities and irregularities and more.

Enjoy!

Audio version:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-36-menstrual-cycle-health-with-victoria-felkar/id1475160059?i=1000470187065

Learn more about Laurin and LoCo Fit
www.teamlocofit.com
YT: Laurin Conlin
IG: @laurinconlin
IG: @teamLoCoFit
FB: @laurinconlin

TRT Hormone Optimization: Women's HRT & Hormones Across the Lifespan

TRT Hormone Optimization

I was welcomed back onto the TRT Hormone Optimization Podcast, this time having a chance to chat with Angie Bossa about women’s hormone replacement therapy and hormones across the lifespan.

We covered a lot of ground, including:

• What is peri-menopause?

• Key phases in women’s reproduction lifespan - from puberty to menopause

• The importance of progesterone

• Testosterone replacement therapy for women

• Hormone testing & symptom tracking

• And more!

Check out the three part episode below!

Part 1: Peri-menopause - What & WHen?

Perimenopause when and what? Angie Bossa interviews Victoria Felkar on women's health, Perimenopause Symptoms, and Age. Victoria Felkar Web: www.victoriafelk...

Part 2: The Importance of Progesterone - Female Hormones Explained

Victoria Felkar explains 'The Band Theory' and the importance of Progesterone. Female Hormones Explained in an interview with Angie Bossa as the host! #trtan...

Part 3:Testosterone For Women, Testing and Knowing Your Body

Victoria Felkar talks about Testosterone For Women, Testing and Knowing Your Body. #trtandhormoneoptimization #trt #hormoneoptimization Victoria Felkar Web: ...

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Bodies, Barbells & Bagels: Part 1

Part 1: Female Hormones, Menstrual Cycles & Fertility

After being away from the mic for 6 months, I’m back! And what a real treat it was to make my return as a guest on Bodies, Barbells & Bagels with Alice Round and Sean Mclaney. They let me dive deep into women’s health, menstruation, and steroids - so deep in fact that they turned the conversation into a two part podcast!

Thanks Alice and Sean for a wonderful show! It was a real honour to be a guest on your show.

Check out their show summary below!

In this episode of BBB, with the female hormone expert herself- Victoria Felkar, we discuss the variations in women's menstrual cycles. Is there such a thing as a "normal cycle"? We delve into the signs and symptoms of both a typical and atypical flow. From this episode, we want women listening to understand the WHY behind fertility and hormonal issues and offer potential practical strategies to improve their health and wellbeing.

PODCAST LINK:

https://bodiesbarbellsbagels.libsyn.com/episode-25-female-hormones-menstrual-cycles-fertility-with-victoria-felkar-part-1

ITUNES:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-25-female-hormones-menstrual-cycles-fertility/id1346601256?i=1000442834826

Learn more about Alice & Sean:

Alice Round
WEB: http://aliceround.com/
IG: @aliround & @mclaneytrained
FB: @aliceroundnutritiontraining
YOUTUBE: Alice Round

Sean Mclaney
IG: @mclaneytrained
FB: Sean Mclaney

TRT Revolution with Jay Campbell

How to Help Chemically Castrated Women Get Their Health Back

This podcast was everything! I had a fabulous time chatting with Mr. TOT himself, Jay Campbell of TOT Revolution. I met Jay at SWIS in October 2018, and loved the no b.s. energy and endless passion he brought to the conversation of hormone replacement therapy. His mission to provide the best education possible through partnering with the world’s best is also so near and dear to my own heart.

Thanks Jay for everything! Can’t wait for the next opportunity to talk shop with you!

Check out Jay’s amazing summary and show notes below.

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Women’s health has been neglected and filled with myths and ignorance since the beginning of endocrinology.

Why is progesterone one of the most underestimated and misunderstood hormones, and what are its uses?

How has birth control destroyed the health of both men and women?

How can we help chemically castrated women get access to lifesaving healthcare?

On this episode, I talk with health practitioner, consultant, author, and educator, Victoria Felkar about what’s getting in the way of the help women need and what can be done about it.

The more you screw with hormones earlier in life, the more you’re setting yourself up for difficulty later on— but the salvation is in lifestyle.

-Victoria Felkar



At the start of the show, we talked about why women’s endocrinology is handled so badly, and the double standards that cause this.

Next we talked about the connection between hormones and sport, and how the stigma was born. We discussed how hormones are used at the elite levels of sport and how birth control is destroying us.

We also talked about the alarming warning signs about menstrual cycles that we shouldn’t ignore.

We also discussed:

• Why progesterone is a wonder hormone

• How hormones can be used as tools, not crutches

• The commonality of performance enhancement in sport

• The importance of tracking your hormonal bio-feedback

So many women are suffering because hormones like progesterone have been so maligned. At the same time, birth control pills have been misused and abused.

The truth is, the more you screw with hormones earlier on in life through birth control, fertility drugs, and other substances, the more intense the issues will be later on in life.

Lifestyle is actually a very important part of women’s reproductive health, not the manipulation of menstrual cycles we are seeing today.

If you have lower rates of stress, you’re going to improve your reproductive health. The woman’s body has its own built in clock, and it’s like a symphony that requires all the instruments.

If we start manipulating or removing some parts, there’s no telling how bad the impact will be, and we’re definitely starting to see the negative downstream effects now.

PODCAST LINK:

http://www.totrevolution.com/how-to-help-chemically-castrated-women-get-their-health-back-w-victoria-felkar/

ITUNES:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/trt-revolution-podcast/id1097576864?mt=2

Learn more about Jay Campbell & The TOT Revolution
WEB: http://www.totrevolution.com
IG: @TOTrevolution
FB: @TRTexpert
YOUTUBE: TOT Revolution

EliteFTS: Female Athletes & Exogenous Substances

From your digestion to your sleep to your cognition, exogenous hormone use has dramatic effects on your entire body. However, there is a subconscious idea that when a drug is taken it, it's actions and influence will stay within a tidy little box of ‘intended’ outcomes. The reality is, pharmaceuticals influence nearly every system in your body.

If that wasn’t enough, the chaos effect of a drug must be compounded with other variables such as the fluidity of a women's hormonal life course (puberty, perimenopause), an extraordinarily stressful physiological event (ie. competing or acute illness), or the ongoing multiple small daily stressors, like training at a high capacity without adequate nutrition and sleep. Needless to say, there are so many factors that on their own or together with others, can manifest in immediate, ongoing, and future health consequences.

But, these risks don't just come from drugs used for enhancement purposes either. Although the 'finger' is pointed at anabolic-androgenic steroids for causing massive system-wide dysfunctions within the body, steroids like oral contraceptives - espescially when taken at the beginning of a female's reproductive period - have the capacity to result in lingering effects for health.

Breaking down myths, speaking to the knowledge gap, and critically thinking about the information you read and receive will go a long way in helping to improve the current state of women's health. Blissful, willful and reckless ignorance won’t help the situation, or the women affected by it. Get informed, get critical, and build knowledge by breaking down myths.

Read the full write-up from EliteFTS here.

Write here…

EliteFTS: www.elitefts.com
FB: @elitefts
IG: @elitefts
YT: Dave Tate

OPD Podcast - Female Hyperandrogenism

OPD PODCAST #38

This week we were lucky enough to sit down with specialist Victoria Felkar to deep dive into multiple issues a woman may face in their health and physique development journey including birth control, hyperandrogenism and new research in female hormonal health.

EPISODE LINK:

https://www.jjphysique.com/podcast/2018/9/23/female-hyperandrogenism-ft-victoria-felkar

Podcasts App: Optimal Physique Development

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwDgypolfVG3nCfZf_N3XIg

ITUNES:

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/optimal-physique-development/id1265819314?mt=2

PLAYER FM:

https://player.fm/series/optimal-physique-development

Learn more about Optimal Physique Development Podcast
https://www.jjphysique.com/podcast/

Joe Jeffery
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Email: joejefferyuk@gmail.com
www.jjphysique.com

Austin Stout
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Email: datas4@aol.com
www.integratedmandh.com

Dean St Mart
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https://www.youtube.com/user/Deanstm
www.trainedbyjp.com

EliteFTS: Menstrual Cycle Myths

Menstrual myth busting with the help of @elitefts. I’m so grateful to @underthebar and EliteFTS for providing me with a platform to talk about one of the biggest barriers to women’s health.

It’s easy to blame “stupid” coaches for manipulating women’s hormones, or point the finger at #fitchicks for perpetuating nothing more than rubbish rumours about periods and PCOS. Getting to the root of the problem is the hard part.

Overtime numerous myths and misconceptions have shaped our knowledge and understanding about women – their health, hormones and lives. Today, these myths continue to linger within most aspects of society, including medicine, science, and fitness. Although I'd like to believe that the cute infographics posted by the #fitfam are done with good intentions, the truth is, often these do more harm by continuing to produce, reproduce, and magnify not just bad - but wrong information, about women's health.

For the last two decades, there has been an epidemic of hormonal disturbances within women’s life cycles. Oral contraceptives use, enivornmental toxins, eating or training too much or too little, layering stress on more stress, and A LOT of other variables and triggers are contributing to this. My goal is never to simplify the situation or reduce it to any one factor. The body is really, really complicated and there are no easy or unified solutions. It always must come down to the individual in question. It should always be about her. Her body, her health, her life in context today, years past and those still to come.

With that being said, we must start recognizing that when it comes to women's hormones and menstrual cycles, there is a lot that we think we know, don't know and may never know.

Breaking down myths, speaking to the knowledge gap, and critically thinking about the information you read and receive will go a long way in helping to improve the current state of women's health. Blissful, willful and reckless ignorance won’t help the situation, or the women affected by it. Get informed, get critical, and let's start building knowledge by breaking myths.

Check out the write up: https://www.elitefts.com/educa…/watch-menstrual-cycle-myths/

EliteFTS: www.elitefts.com
FB: @elitefts
IG: @elitefts
YT: Dave Tate

Advices Radio: The Menstrual Cycle

Advices Radio with Scott McNally #58

This podcast makes me smile. My good friend, Scott McNally gave me a huge challenge to cover the menstrual cycle in a concise, easy to digest way that would provide listeners with a practical understanding of an incredibly complex process. Thank you Scott for providing me with another opportunity to do what I love!

Within the podcast, we explore the shifting kaleidoscope of hormones that are part of the menstrual cycle. The goal of this program is to help promote a better understanding of what is actually happening, which is a difficult task since every female body is unique.

EPISODE link:

https://www.advicesradio.com/track/episode-58

 

ITUNES: 

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/advices-radio/id1104299645?mt=2#

 

Stitcher: 

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/scott-mcnally/advices-radio/e/53953022

Learn more about Advices Radio:
www.advicesradio.com
FB: @advices.radio
YOUTUBE: Advices Radio

Ask Me Anything E2: Periods, Training & Hormonal Adaptations

Ask Me Anything

Can you breakdown the stages of a women’s menstrual cycle, and how training volume/intensity should be adapted to their cycle?

I tackle this question by discussing why in my opinion you can't actually adequately adapt training to an individual's menstrual cycle. To do so, I cover all of this and more:

• Menstrual life cycle & the huge degree of individual variance
• The influence of various hormonal adaptions such as birth control, exogenous hormones & training
• Why lab work is hard to do
• Training for your own individual menstrual cycle including controlling inflammation
• Some key biofeedback markers to track and follow

In this episode I tackle the question: Can you breakdown the stages of a women's menstrual cycle, and how training volume/intensity should be adapted to their cycle? I tackle this question by discussing why in my opinion you can't actually adequately adapt training to an individual's menstrual cycle.

If you like what you see, feel free to share. If you have any questions you'd like me to cover please feel free to shoot me a message.

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Video by: Alora Griffiths
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Muscle Expert: Hormone Manipulation & Food as Therapy

Muscle Expert Podcast with Ben Pakulski #58

USING food as a therapeutic tool and hormone manipulation in sports

Can’t thank Ben Pakulski enough for having me on The Muscle Expert. I'll admit, I was nervous as all when I found out that I was the first female guest - but I think he managed to keep the entire conversation organic and flowing by not telling me we were even recording! Seriously, though - this was such a good podcast, and it was great to catch up, talk shop and educate on some really critical topics. Thanks again Ben!

Key Highlights:

• How to balance fat ratios.
• The menstrual cycle myth and why women should be wary of missing their menstrual cycle.
• Glucose disposal agents, sex hormones, sleep deprivation, post-diet binge eating mitigation strategies.  

"Just don't eat like an asshole" 

EPISODE LINK:

http://www.benpakulski.com/podcasts/victoria/

 

ITUNES: 

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/ben-pakulski-podcast-muscle/id725296816

STITCHER: 

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ben-pakulski-podcast-muscle-expert-interviews-how-to-build/ben-pakulski-podcast-muscle-expert-interviews

Learn more about Ben Pakulski & The Muscle Expert podcast:
http://www.benpakulski.com
FB: @IFBBbenpakFANPage
IG: @ifbbbenpak
Youtube: MI40 Muscle Intelligence

Time Stamps:

4:00 Victoria's dissertation topic, exploring the world of female hormonal manipulation in elite sport.

10:47 Hyperandrogenism in females. 

11: 40 Metformin for women post competition.

13:40 Strategies for women recovering from androgen use. 

16:12 Progestron, chronic inflammation and more.

17:35 Reducing dietary triggers, changing your breakfast and eliminating the major allergenic foods.

20:06 Testing for gut health, food mapping protocols, and biofeedback.

21:50 Using food as a therapeutic tool. 

23:38 Balancing fat ratios. 

25:29 The modern American diet,

25:1 omega 6:3 ratio? 

28:50 Women, the first line of defense to overcome the psychology the binge and purge mindset. 

33:43 Glucose disposal agents, hormones, sleep deprivation. 

38:05 Less is more when it comes to training and more is more when it comes to food.

39:00 The menstrual cycle myth.

42:10 Victoria's book, nonhormonal ways to fix hormonal imbalances. 

45:50 The critical biopsychosocial physical ecological model of dynamic relations. 

52:00 Finding gratitude and acceptance.

56:42 Managing variables. 

1:00:20 Morning routines and avoiding emails.