{"id":472309,"date":"2026-05-29T02:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/472309\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T02:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:14:25","slug":"trying-to-get-fitter-you-might-actually-need-to-eat-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/472309\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to get fitter? You might actually need to eat more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;RED-S is when there&#8217;s not enough energy to support all movement and biological processes,&#8221; says McGregor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s further impacted by internal stress on the body, such as not fuelling enough, losing weight rapidly and training at too high intensity with little or poor recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It can lead to other health issues too. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Often we&#8217;ll see low iron levels in individuals who are in RED-S,&#8221; says McGregor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Under-fuelling can also lead to disruptions in female hormones which can lead to irregular or even loss of periods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you don&#8217;t have regular menstrual cycles, this starts to have a negative impact on other areas of your health and can lead to injuries such as <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC3702771\/\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stress fractures, external<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davis says losing your period was historically considered the norm in athletes: <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It used to be seen that if you lost your period, it meant you&#8217;re training hard. Now, we know, losing your period is a key sign of under-fuelling. It&#8217;s a sign you need to pull back.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;RED-S is when there&#8217;s not enough energy to support all movement and biological processes,&#8221; says McGregor. &#8220;It&#8217;s further&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[103,61,60,446],"class_list":["post-472309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}