And now, our TED Talk of the day.

As a little girl, I loved playing sports.

I also loved painting my fingernails and parading around my mother's house in her high-heeled shoes.

From the beginning of time, I have lived in contrasting worlds, contrasting and often conflicting ideas about what women should and shouldn't do, or maybe how we should and shouldn't look.

A pivotal moment came for me when I was a sophomore in high school.

My mother took me to an audition for a modeling agency, and I can't tell you how nervous I was that day or even what I was wearing, but I will never forget the way I felt the next morning.

As I was walking into school, I got a phone call.

[laughs]

Hmm

... uh, let's, let's go back to a woman who's in her years of fertility.

So we'll say she's kind of in this 25 to 45, um, year old age range.

During a menstrual cycle, in anybody that's menstruating, we have differing levels of estrogen production.

So in the first half of the cycle, which is called the follicular phase, when the pituitary gland is stimulating the ovaries, stimulating the follicles, and we're getting some estradiol secretion, um, this is a time where, um, in the gym they're gonna notice that they, uh, have a rate of perceived exertion that is very low.

They're gonna feel like they can lift a house.

They can recover.

Mm-hmm

And it's like, I was like, wow, I think carbs are really underrated here.

You are very metabolically healthy.

You're probably very metabolically flexible.

The trouble that most people get into is they don't know how to find the balance.

So let's go to the extremes.

A ketogenic diet is very high in fat, very low in carbohydrates.

For endurance athletes, there's actually some literature that suggests that it can be strategic and helpful to train in a ketogenic state and then use carbs strategically for performance.

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As a little girl, I loved playing sports.

I also loved painting my fingernails and parading around my mother's house in her high-heeled shoes.

From the beginning of time, I have lived in contrasting worlds, contrasting and often conflicting ideas about what women should and shouldn't do, or maybe how we should and shouldn't look.

A pivotal moment came for me when I was a sophomore in high school.

My mother took me to an audition for a modeling agency, and I can't tell you how nervous I was that day or even what I was wearing, but I will never forget the way I felt the next morning.

As I was walking into school, I got a phone call.

[laughs]