That 's total nonsense. wrote:
amenorrUGH wrote:
Maybe we can take this all as a teaching point for young female runners that it is healthy to be in a condition in which you get your period regularly. If that was Mary's first time in 3 months, then her body has got serious hormonal issues, much higher risk of stress fractures and osteoporosis, and this list goes on. These things affect you way beyond your running life.
Uhealthy women have much heavier periods than healthy ones.
In fact healthy women even non runners often skip periods and/or have very light ones, due to being in much better health and physical condition.
Yes I am aware that healthy women occasionally (not often) skip periods and tend to have light ones. Signed, a healthy woman.
This correlation does not extend in that the healthier one is, the less period one has. There's a saddle here.