414: Fast Chats — Navigating Complex Injuries, and Evidence that Hormonal Changes Don’t Degrade Performance

About this episode

The episode discusses solutions for complex injuries and reviews research on hormonal changes and performance.

We discuss how to find solutions when you’re dealing with injuries without an obvious cause, then we review new research that demonstrates that changes in progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone do not negatively impact performance in males or females. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Topics covered

• injuries
• hormonal changes
• performance
• research

Keywords

• progesterone
• estrogen
• testosterone
• performance impact

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