This short transcript excerpt discusses Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) as a legitimate, prevalent hormonal condition affecting primarily female athletes/exercisers who train frequently and maintain low energy availability. The speaker frames REDs as common, harmful to hormonal health, difficult to manage, and relevant to weight-loss efforts and coaching approaches.
There's a thing called Reds, and it's an effectively, what happens when you live in this low energy availability state. Effectively a female specific issue. If you live in a really low energy availability state for a long time, you're going to see. You said hormonal reds is actually very legitimate. It's awful. And it is incredibly pervasive, especially for female athletes, or what I'll just call female exercisers. You're exercising five or six times a week, and you're really doing cardio and you're like, really pushing it. Strength training twice a week. So that is a very, very real thing. And it's so hard because they desperately need to lose that weight. So the approach we have philosophically, I mean, this can happen to men, too. But I would say our experience and our coaching program would mimic yours.
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