When "Healthy" Becomes Restrictive: RED-S, Missing Periods & Recovery with Coach Traci | Ep. 157
What happens when the habits you associate with being a healthy, disciplined athlete start working against you?
Meet Traci, the newest coach at Excelerate Athletics. In this episode, she shares how a lifetime in athletics led to restrictive eating, orthorexia-type behaviors, and eight and a half years without a period—and how that experience shaped her research on female athletes, amenorrhea, and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S).
We explore the physical and emotional sides of recovery, why knowing what to do doesn't always make it easy to change, and how her personal experience and…
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