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In this podcast, Morgan Bronson discusses her interest in how gender affects nutritional health and its impact on physical well-being. She shares her personal experience with dietitians and trainers during her competitive gymnastics career. As she grew older, she became skeptical of their qualifications to train females. She describes her experience with a personal trainer who prescribed a diet plan with an excessive calorie intake, leading to rapid muscle gain and an undesired bulky appearance. She questions if trainers know how to train females or if it's due to lack of knowledge. This experience prompted her to conduct research on how females have different dietary and workout needs due to biological factors. She acknowledges the complexity of individual genetic differences but is determined to find answers. In future episodes, she plans to delve into the history of women's dieting and nutrition and further discuss her research findings. Hello everybody and welcome to my podcast. My name is Morgan Bronson and today We're going to dive into the topic of women's health Specifically how it differs from men's So over the past few years I just recently became interested in this idea of how gender affects nutritional health and to what extent that it has on physical well-being So first I should start off by Disclosing the term gender so in this specific context Gender refers to the sex assigned at birth whether that is male or female So I just wanted to disclose that so there's no further confusion and I go in to find my further findings of research so Now I just kind of want to explain how I came about This research topic and what really piqued my interest So growing up my two older sisters and I were heavily involved in competitive gymnastics So at the age of 12 we began seeing licensed Dietitians and athletic trainers in order to enhance our performance and at this young age I never really questioned the practices of these professionals Just because I assumed that they were doing their jobs and that both my sister and I's best interests were at heart But I remember sitting down with one of the many dietitians that I saw alongside my parents and at this appointment Specific goals were discussed like how to maintain the lean physique that I had but also ensure that I was getting in all the nutrients That I needed as a growing teenager My dietitian at the time gave me a diet plan to follow and this plan consisted of consuming at least 2,200 calories a day and getting in plenty of protein fiber and carbohydrates So this was a pretty typical standard plan considering that I was a very active growing teenager so therefore I followed this plan religiously and my Gymnastics coach actually required that my teammates and I would record a diet log And this is where we like recorded everything that we ate during the day and we would do this for every month of the year so Needless to say this was a very Competitive phase in my gymnastics career and I took it very seriously so Like I said at this specific time in my life I never really questioned whether or not the dietitians that I saw were Necessarily qualified because I was so young and I quite honestly Didn't really have any issues with Them in the beginning of my teenage years. I was still in gymnastics however After my gymnastics career is when I began to grow a little skeptical of whether or not Dietitians and athletic trainers were actually qualified to train females So when I was about 15 years old, I was severely underweight. I weighed around 110 pounds and I was 5 6 so I was extremely malnourished and at this time my parents suggested that I see a personal trainer to help me When it came to my eating habits as well as just putting on some weight So I agreed to this idea due to the fact that my older sister Maddie was actually seeing One of the best personal trainers in our area So before just like jumping into a new gym and like throwing weight around I actually had set a meeting with this personal trainer And here he asked me what my goals were and then I mentioned that I wanted to put on a healthy amount of muscle mass But I didn't want to necessarily put on an excessive amount to where I would begin to look stocky or bulky So I also mentioned that I also wanted to improve improve my agility and endurance Because at this time I became very devoted to basketball. Basketball was like my sport in high school So I made that clear to my trainer that Agility was really important And Because I was a few years older now, I understood that like the more muscle mass you had It would in turn make my body harder or make it more difficult For me to move my body around if I have more muscle mass. It's just kind of like basic physics So I began to kind of just like internalize and interpret like Kind of what these plans should look like even though I knew I was not a professional I just kind of had like an idea of what they should look like Just through the fact that I was older and more knowledgeable and I wasn't just 14 years old 12, you know, so I expressed these goals with my trainer and He had said that they'd be put into a diet plan and he would construct it so when I received these regimens I was a little bit skeptical because my calorie intake goal was set at 4,000 calories, which is a pretty extreme amount due to the fact that I wasn't as Physically active because I didn't really have the demand of You know like a five-hour gymnastics practice a day. It was more of a Two-hour basketball practice so I didn't necessarily need to intake that Much when it came to calories But regardless of the skepticism, I continue to religiously follow Both the diet and workout plans and as I began to spend more time in the gym I began to notice that I was doing very similar workouts to my male friends in the gym And I also began to notice that I was gaining muscle at a very rapid pace In fact, I gained 10 pounds of muscle mass in two and a half months Now this is extremely fast because it typically takes the average person six months to put on that amount so I Then like began to notice myself appearing bulky and this was something that I made very clear to my trainer that I did not want out of this program So needless to say I was very frustrated by these results because I was paying these professionals hundreds of dollars to personalize a program that caters to the goals that I envisioned and then I Would get something that I didn't necessarily want out of it. So I was just frustrated at that And then I also noticed that there were very few females who attended this gym It primarily consisted of football players who were seeking to gain weight So then I began to question well, does my trainer even know how to train females if all he sees are young High school boys looking to put on weight So after having conversations with the other girls who attended this gym We all kind of noticed how our programs looked very similar to the programs that all the boys were on So the more time that I spent in the gym, I noticed that I was Performing the same split or workout routine as my male friends in the gym Who are again like football linebackers looking to put on weight So then this is when another question arose Did our plans look the same because of Lazy business practices or because of the lack of knowledge that my athletic trainer had regarding female athletes and their nutrition and Truthfully, I don't think that my trainers are being lazy and just giving us all the similar or similar training Instead I think that they just didn't have the knowledge To train females because all the other clients were high school boys And they wanted the same thing. They wanted to put on weight for the football season. That's typically what they saw in their business So I think that they didn't have a lot of females like flowing in and out of the gym So I think that they didn't necessarily know How to cater a workout regimen for them So I Began to think about The other females across the country who felt similar to myself and Because of this I decided to just Conduct research on this topic during that free time Just about how females like require different dietary needs due to biological factors So then this would obviously affect The dietary and workout programs and how they should in theory look different from a males So it's useless to say that This research intrigues me because although it seems obvious that males and females are somewhat biologically different it's a very complex idea because Everyone requires different Dietary needs due to genetics, so it's not just the idea of men and women needing different dietary needs it's Everybody so it's hard to distinguish like these specifics for males and females But I'm determined in the finding somewhat of an answer to that so That's actually all I'm going to do in this initial recording because in the next recording I'm going to really dive deeper into History of Women's dieting and nutrition, and then I'm going to go again into Like the research that I found so for this Mock trial I just wanted to like do my personal narrative just to see how it turned out But in the final podcast I'll have all of the information there