The Gender Health Gap in Fitness and How This Harms Women With Dr. Jessica Shepherd
Update: 2026-03-09
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Episode Highlights With Jessica
- What the gender health gap is and how this negatively impacts women
- The reason women weren’t included.. It wasn’t necessarily malicious, just assumed that the physiology was the same and just adjust based on height and weight
- Women and men’s physiology is very different and this impacts a lot in medicine and fitness
- How hormones come into play in fitness
- Why functional training is especially important for women and how to strength train in functional ways
- The importance of the time between age 40-60 that impacts things later in life
- Hormones are chemical messengers and how to understand female hormones to train differently
- Her personal and clinical 80/20 that she suggests for biggest impact for women
Resources Mentioned
- Dr. Jessica's website
- Pvolve workouts - Use code wellnessmama for 15% off (limited time)
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