Author: Stacy T. Sims

Sims is an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who took her doctorate at the University of Otago in 2006 and has run research programmes at Stanford, AUT and the University of Waikato. Her argument, compressed into the slogan that women are not small men, is that most sports nutrition advice was measured on male subjects and then handed to women unchanged, ignoring what the menstrual cycle does to heat tolerance, fuelling and recovery. ROAR set this out for athletes and coaches; Next Level applied it to perimenopause and afterwards. She sits on advisory boards for sports and supplement companies, which readers should weigh when she recommends a product, and she supervises doctoral students in New Zealand.