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Is your nutrition the cause of your injuries? 😕 $Is your nutrition the cause of your injuries? 😕  NOT trying to blame here, but we need to have some #realtalk.   My gymnastics career ended with an elbow injury (OCD) that wasn’t actually diagnosed until 8 years after I retired!  You see, I had relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S) when I got that injury. I spent WEEKS rehabbing, etc but the injury didn’t heal. That’s painful for me to share, but it’s the truth.   I felt a lot of guilt/shame about that injury. I knew I was struggling with food and my body at the time (in fact, I had an eating disorder so there’s that). It wasn’t until recently that I was told that injury was related to my poor nutrition, and that hurt.   Gymnastics is a hard sport with a high rate of injury. Some injuries are freak accidents that just happen. Other injuries come from improper training and overuse.   But a lot of injures (especially stress fracture/stress reaction injuries) stem from underfueling (RED-S).   Essentially this is what happens:  -You don’t eat enough, you exercise a lot and so your body doesn’t have enough nutrition to grow, develop, repair, and recover. -This leads to a lack of estrogen production which results in bone mass loss and weakens the bones -Combine weak bones with high levels of intense training and voila! Stress reaction/fracture injury.   The conversations about nutrition around these injures are really tough.  We’re more concerned about what gymnast’s bodies look like than making sure they’re adequately fueled and have the best performance and longevity in the sport.   If you or your gymnast has had any of these injures (or is just constantly injured, exhausted, has no period, etc)…it’s time to meet with a sports dietitian trained to evaluate RED-S. To learn more, join me for The Gymnast Nutritionist®’s 10 Days of Fueling, a free email based mini-course for you and your gymnast! Link in bio to register, we start December 5th!$

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