Science-Backed Nutrition Tips For Women with Dr. Hazel Wallace

Nutrition plays a huge role across the lifespan. I studied medicine. I was really excited to learn about nutrition and lifestyle, but you don't learn very much about nutrition in medical school. I was diagnosed with PCOS. It took me two years to get to that point, despite me being a medical doctor myself. And I see that often in clinic with women who come in, be that endometriosis or PCOS, and they've been told by a healthcare professional with a throwaway comment, oh, just cut out gluten, just cut out carbs, all these random non evidence backed things that they don't realize have a huge implication on women. Women are very unique and have unique nutritional requirements that change across the lifespan. You go through puberty, pregnancy and postpartum, perimenopause, menopause. So there's all these, what I like to call, important hormonal milestones that influence a woman's needs across the cycle. So what are the most important things that you wish people understood about this space? Hi, Hi, everybody. I'm Emily Capitalupo, WHOOP senior vice president of research algorithms and data. And today, I am joined by doctor Hazel Wallace. Doctor Wallace is a medical doctor and a registered nutritionist, and I do not think people realize how little nutritional training medical doctors get as part of their medical training. And so it really is special to have somebody who's doubly certified and really thinking about the intersection of these two fields that are highly related and, not enough thought about. So I'm so, so grateful that you're here and very excited for this conversation. Yeah. Me too. I'm really excited to be here. Thanks for having me. So just to give everybody a a quick rundown of what to expect over the next hour or so, doctor Wallace is a member of the WHOOP medical Advisory Board. We're so lucky to have her incredible expertise infused all over the product, and I think you're really gonna love hearing what she has to say. She specializes in women's health. She's written an incredible book called The Female Factor, which we will link in the show notes, and she's also the founder of a platform called The Food Medic. So why don't we start off there? What is The Food Medic? So I will try to give you the short story of a very long story, But as you mentioned in the introduction, I studied medicine, so did a conventional medical degree. And I was really excited to learn about nutrition and lifestyle within that degree because my backstory is I lost my father to a stroke when I was 14. And as it's a cardiovascular disease, even as a teenager, I knew that that was strongly related to our nutrition, our lifestyle, stress, activity. And so I guess somewhere deep down, I went into medicine for that reason, but you don't learn very much about nutrition in medical school. And I started the food medic while I was there …