climbing col, position, i was pretty incredible to, to drive here again, and especially in qualifying, you know, when you're on low fuel, these guys really come a larger to for a sector. so. yeah, of course, very happy to be involved, but also in general, just super happy to to be back there. now that is all for now, but there's more sport coming up after a short break. that's coming. bless, sports life play, stick around for that. i'll be back in 45 minutes with more nice people than trucks injured one trying to flee the city center more and more refugees are being turned away and the border families, planes on the reason for these critical illness with people seeing extreme dreams. ross, getting 200 people from the agency around the world. more than

300000000 people are seeking refuge. yes. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. w. made for mines. ah. yeah. was on all i and hi, lisa got a lot of comp go go, go, go, go. i was with, i go, go, go, go, go, go with a, a, a with, with the whole problem of one of the biggest problems for female athletes is that

that tough training regime can cause their periods to stop. failure to follow me become smith as far as complete. you can't simply starve yourself or train hot and at the same time, expect your body to remain fertile. bob's with laura philip is a triathlete, one of the best on the planet. like other professional athletes. her life is geared around her sport and the punishing training that goes with it. but on one front, she's very much leading the way to me again. i now train with my cycle and work with my body instead of against it.

mm . ah, laura joined the triumph on world in 2011. she trained like most other female athletes for the 1st few years. i worked up until the fly. i did the same training program as man, and as with most sports triathlon is dominated by men of so i was basically doing the same as them, except i was sometimes slower. of course, you monitors long, but ultimately i expected my body to deliver the same performance every day. uneven tar the flesh. appleton for con, her biggest success to date was winning the 2021 iron man european championship in finland. one of 3 long and middle distance races, she's won this year. one major factor in that success has been focusing on her own

body. she stopped taking the pill 3 years ago and soon saw her body react of her for her a week earlier. for example, the interval unit had been no problem. i felt goods and was able to run the times that philip had set me. no, i'm been even papa. when i tried the same unit a few days later, it suddenly felt like i was running on a rubber band struggling with every step. why was there this difference mere then something clicked? wow, it must be linked to my cycle that you asked man surplus or torn. we were so close on toward with i didn't know much about ministration and sport. i re sure i hadn't really been an issue for me with it until it suddenly hit me. from our experience with laura focused on would do his lot. laura and her husband coach philip followed side the box and tried out training options oriented to her menstrual cycle.

oh, there's still debate about the exact links between sport and the cycle. but what is clear is that ignoring the cycle is risky. him and affect thank is kind of the end of the day. i think it can lead you losing your periods and also losing your natural loaning system on tides on that makes you far more vulnerable to injuries, thought it for lessons unfairly garvin by also off in the case of endurance athletes. the impact on your bones is a really big issue. it can mean a far higher risk of osteoporosis, attack band address. mm hm. the menstrual cycle generally has a 28 to 35 day rhythm. and has a wide ranging impact on everything from tissue last to city, to body temperature, energy requirements, sex drive, and mood changes all due to

a highly complex interplay between various organs and above all hormones buses would uncertain. and what i like about my cycle is that it gives me monthly feedback from my body. other, it's like a 5th vital sign along side pulse breathing are so on warmer, on the letter. and all it also has a cleansing function of the bleeding. also sheds heavy metals and other contaminants from the body min and so he gives women a huge advantage. it allows them to get rid of these toxins every month on hum will not lish once all at russ and pleading for kern. lou. lou shuffled tear, i'm so i've tried to depict my cycle here and as the 1st half ends with of elation, that's in the middle of the cycle. dim ice cream bend at the body,

releases an egg for either the right or left ovary lesta fly, and you'd also get the egg is ready for fertilization in the 2nd half of the cycle after before. that's infiniti. if that doesn't happen, if the ag dies and the cycle begins again with the 1st day of bleeding, asking character, brutal, how long does your conflict annoying to your height? it is vita in there. i have minced well to him to close on squad. laura has addressed the issue in 6 episodes on her youtube channel explaining the cycle itself, why it's important, how you can train best taking it into account and what disturbs it as well. and i know how to affect one dentist. im also mastery by mine. i'm problem. yeah. mit as humped was up. there is and fact is a stress now the item emit them names. pardon i yeah, russell my my stress and finish center. super individual stress is i am so might be

off spot with that i but i, but i love on them. i have known for things for them. mm. spot is myoshi. a sports involves bio chemical stress, because the adrenal glands release, the stress hormone cortisol. if we do too much sports, it means we have a huge amount of stress hormones in our body, manufactured us by now and with women that leads to hormonal problems, probably after a relatively short time. what's outside, severe menstrual pain, irregular bleeding, or no bleeding at all, or signs from the body that something isn't right? ah,

doctors tend to respond with the same old solution here or fix that the most common suggestion is to take the pill or hormones regulate your cycle, which is plain wrong, are parked as photos. well, everything seems okay. not menstruating means you're not really receiving those signals from the body. physically with the real cause of problems unclear, you don't know why your body doesn't seem to be functioning correctly. bowl is mine cup arcada, gustavo fulton admission. the pill, deactivate the body's natural interplay of hormones. and interrupts ovulation. so by taking the pill months in advance, women can prevent menstrual bleeding during meets the body is fooled into thinking it's pregnant. there is no bleeding, but it also means a major hormonal imbalance. guns got philistine and there are a huge number of performances we simply wouldn't see in the sports world. if women

did not suppress their bodies smashed, we might find it fascinating to know what phase of her cycle of female athlete is in when she's just won a race at nathan big one heart about him and think of a woman in the 2nd half of her cycle who has one iron man, hawaii, and who is still menstruating? oh, i'd have even more respect for her performance, then headed out on a female spect. laura stance of listening to her own body has prompted plenty of reaction on social media and not only positive. all guileless herdsman, typical and some man here saying who cares? he who half the world's population are women. oh, well they might be interested in what i hear the sound coming from a woman. this is wild figures, all this jabbering on about women's biggest problem. i see by my mid thirties, i'd had enough and had my usual removed done after that no more bleeding and intense pain every 4 weeks come out ever was on that. i just think it's sad that

this woman never really found a connection to her femininity and to herself. i was kind of the cisco fulton hobbs, will be spotless, and i'm going to have is the new on the muslim world or mid august. laura's customized program incorporates not only training but di to in that flattened surface in the 2nd half of my cycle, i really noticed my blood sugar fluctuating. i might be on my bike and after just half an hour, i feel this craving for food isn't. and in the 1st half of my cycle, i can be doing the same training units, but it's one and a half hours until i even think about fading. the right nutrients, the best timing for muscle growth, resting and interval training factors that laura learns by listening to her body

is must i, i need your full test, but ding ding and dish fuzzy. i had to reconsider if you think us and stuff i'd assume to be right. but now question all sin. and there's no substitute for practical experience knowing their alternatives and then trying them out on those fonts. and yet when done all scorpion as it must be in them. yeah. we single laura cycles become increasingly regular. they do it. i'm no longer thrown off balance by me. i got a coach. ah, yeah. yeah, minister mine can i add something? we really noticed how certain training units would cause chaos with my menstrual cycle when i did them around the time of, of elation. and after that i had an overly long cycle again done to long sucrose cub. yet i mentioned we all have physical cycles on daily wisdom and women have a monthly cycle on top of that when it's learning to live with that rhythm makes you healthier. little lucinda is mon ish mac. this in

consent utilize. so i see it in the consistency of performance and in the contentment she shows that she seems to do with stress a lot better than used to be a case math person upcoming. that is to, for con, like they were switched off my paying attention to my cycle. his took me more in sync with my body. i have a fall better feeling from my end body of us and for. and that consciousness is crucial when it comes to the demand sports, them in place on their bodies on a daily basis. you call us back. and because glove is jewish, jesus but will. so i am at the shop. ah

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