Just askin' wrote:
Runnerchx44 wrote:
Are you some sort of medical professional? Where is the research to back up your claim that a woman cannot be a world class runner and still have her period? Ever hear of Mary Keitany? She still has hers.
I never said it goes away forever. At the training loads required to run a 3:55 the body would no longer support reproduction and menstruation would stop. Just as your body shunts blood flow during exercise, so does it reallocate resources during extreme training cycles and since reproduction is unnecessary, it will shut it down. Yes, you can be a professional and run fast and not lose your period. No, you cannot be THE BEST EVER female distance runner, especially in events between 1500 and 5000 meters, and still have your period. And yes, I'm a medical professional.
I have no sources for you, just science.
Dude you are no kind of professional because you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Starving women, either anorexic or in war torn countries, have gotten pregnant. Geriatric women have gotten pregnant. Life ‘finds a way’. Fertility isn’t so clearly defined as being only for women above a certain body fat percentage or below a certain mpw training program.
I can say as a female athlete who lost her period for SIX YEARS that it was not simply weight or training adjustments that brought it back. And I ran far better and was leaner when I had my period vs when I didn’t. The difference for me was nutrition.