The Gender Health Gap in Fitness and How This Harms Women With Dr. Jessica Shepherd

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) Hiya Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama for 50% off your first order.

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The Gender Health Gap in Fitness and How This Harms Women With Dr. Jessica Shepherd is an episode from The Wellness Mama Podcast by Katie Wells.

This episode is 25:03 long.

This episode was published on Mar 9, 2026.

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