What podcasts say about Dr. Stephanie Estima
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What Dr. Stephanie Estima has said on podcasts
31 statements · 18 positive · 11 negative · 2 neutral
Carbohydrates support mood, sleep, and exercise performance
“we need carbohydrates for our mood, our sleep, even performance at the gym”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 2:12
Pursuing thinness at the expense of health is harmful
“the pursuit of skinny at the sacrificial altar of everything else”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 5:51
Targeted exercise cannot selectively reduce fat from one body area
“You can't actually spot reduce.”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 15:09
Strength training helps reduce overall body adiposity
“the way that you're gonna reduce overall adiposity in the body is you're gonna be strength training”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 15:18
Long-term food restriction eventually drives increased calorie consumption
“at some point your hunger hormones and your body is just gonna drive you to consume more calories”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 16:10
Women may find increasing expenditure easier than restricting calorie intake
“I personally find it easier for women specifically to do more on the calories out side”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 16:21
Temporary carbohydrate restriction may suit certain populations
“You can restrict carbs temporarily and for certain populations.”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 21:05
Carbohydrates support thyroid function, mood, sleep, and gym performance
“we need carbohydrates, if not for the thyroid, but for our mood, our sleep, even performance, performance at the gym”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 24:01
Excess total calories, carbohydrates, or fat—not carbohydrates alone—drive dietary problems
“the problem is not that the carbs were the problem. It's the over consumption of carbs, the over consumption of fat, the over consumption of total calories.”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 24:56
Most women lack the hormonal environment to become heavily muscled
“97 to 98% of women don't have the hormonal environment to bulk”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 26:07
Frequent fasting may signal famine conditions to the female body
“if you are fasting all the time, you run the risk of sending a signal that it's not safe”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 28:38
Restricted eating windows make adequate nutrient intake more difficult
“It becomes more difficult for you to get in sufficient calories, sufficient protein, sufficient carbohydrates and fats in a restricted eating window.”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 29:28
Women should aim for strength training three or four days weekly
“she can aim something like three or four days a week of strength training”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 34:48
Muscle development can be targeted to specific body areas
“you can definitely spot build”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 35:24
About ten weekly exercise sets per muscle group may support development
“you probably should be hitting something like 10 sets of exercises per week per muscle group”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 36:42
- on Resistance training proximity to failurePositiveJun 29, 2026· The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Training one to three repetitions from failure can be sufficient
“as long as it's one to three repetitions from failure, that's all you need to do”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 37:26
Women’s wider pelvises generally produce greater knee valgus than men’s
“this makes women. When we compare women and men, it makes us more knock kneed”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 40:05
Athlete fatigue is associated with injury occurrence
“it usually happens when the athlete is tired”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 45:03
Magnesium glycinate is generally easier for most people to absorb
“magnesium glycinate. There's lots of different kinds, but glycinate's just the easiest to absorb for most people.”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 49:59
Omega-3 fatty acids reduce inflammation and support cognition
“omega 3s. Okay, these are so well established in literature. They reduce inflammation, they help with cognition”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 51:03
Most people should take at least 4,000 IU daily of vitamin D3 with K2
“D3 with a K2, 4000ius minimum per day. I would say most people should be taking that.”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 51:38
Women can take three to five grams of creatine daily
“I think every woman can be taking 5 grams, 3 to 5 grams of this every single day.”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 53:02
Muscle contraction helps people with PCOS move glucose into muscle cells
“every time she's contracting her muscles, she's actually helping whether insulin is present or not for her to pull that glucose into the muscle cell”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 59:51
VO2 max declines about ten percent per decade without active training
“VO2 max capacity 10% per decade if you're not actively working on it”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 1:01:41
Weighted plyometrics can improve bone density
“if somebody wanted to improve their bone density. Yeah, for sure. You can strap on a weighted vest, do some plyometrics”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 1:05:42
Postpartum women should avoid immediately resuming extremely heavy, intense loads
“you don't want to necessarily go back to extremely heavy loads with lots of intensity right away because you haven't necessarily yet completely healed”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 1:18:25
Kegels may worsen symptoms in people with overly tight pelvic floors
“if you have a tight pelvic floor where you actually have trouble relaxing, Kegels can actually make things a little bit worse”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 1:19:46
Hormone therapy can improve sleep, mood, night sweats, and hot flashes
“Hormones are going to help with your for sure, your sleep, your mood, if you are experiencing some of the thermoregulatory problems like the night sweats and the hot flashes”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 1:22:38
Sleep should be the top recovery priority
“Sleep is the number one thing that everybody should be prioritizing.”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 1:23:44
Eccentric-loaded lifting can strengthen tendons by increasing tensile demand
“when you are lifting, you can bias what's called the eccentric portion of the lift”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 1:25:49
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