Female Athletes and Menstrual Cycles
Hello, Many female athletes suffer from amenorrhea. What are the harmful effects of not having a period and ways to correct the issue? If blood work and Dutch Test results show low progesterone levels, is it recommended to utilize HRT by taking bioidentical progesterone?
Wearables and the convergence of fitness and medical devices
Will we ever hear a podcast episode or series of episodes (similar to Thomas Dayspring's 5 part series) devoted to the convergence of medical health and exercise and fitness? So many of your topics overlap into the obvious, digital health and wearables. You've already had one of the leaders in this field, Eric Topol, talk about the medical advances and Ai. In your latest AMA (and other podcast episodes) you discuss the importance of V02max, a metric traditional talked about by high level endurance athletes but now have an important role in all cause mortality. Today we have Garmin and Apple watches that can monitor sleep, HRV, minimum and maximum HR, body temp, V02max, blood oxygen levels, Afib, and exercise volume and intensity. We have amazing food tracking apps that go way beyond calorie counting and help individual learn about the micro and macro nutrients they consume and the correlation between diet and their goals whether it be weight loss, muscle gain, etc. We have digital home devices like bioelectrical impedance scales that close enough approximation of body weight and body composition, digital BP monitors, digital blood measuring devices, and more to come that all automatically upload into a digital health dashboard where Ai will eventually find correlations. I'd love a week long series with folks like Bertalan Mesko (The medical futurist on YouTube), Daniel Kraft, and of course Eric Topol. Companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google are going to become the biggest disruptors in healthcare because our healthcare industry is too slow to move, they're "fat and happy" so to speak, the tech giants recognize how wearable and digital health is the new frontier.