This is a YouTube video titled "The Impact of Undernourishment on Female Athletes: Understanding the Challenges" featuring Dr. Tessandra Stewart Thompson discussing the issue of chronic under-fueling among female athletes, societal influences on eating habits, and personal experiences related to food and nutrition. The content is a monologue or talk rather than a multi-speaker conversation.
There was a study that basically showed that the majority of female athletes are chronically under fuel. And it's because of this, like, societal saying where we are sort of trained to always think that less is more, less. So we have this, like, little thing that says, you know, oh, I could eat that. No, actually, less is better. Even if you're kind of trying to actively break that because, you know, you need to be eating, there's still a little voice in the back of your head that kind of goes, well, do I need to have that? And then it kind of cycles because, like, for me, for example, I. I had a really weird relationship with food. It's partly adhd, it's partly, like, past things. But I will some days happily eat very, very little. And that's my brain. Just like, it's like it shuts down.
