The Female(?) Athlete Triad - Part III/III: Road to Recovery! Step #2 = Accept There is No Magic Macronutrient Ratio
No need to raid another tomb, Lara, the quest for the one and only ideal macronutrient composition that will yield optimal results for the rest of your life ends here (img courtesy of Paramount )! I am not planning to bore you with a longish summary of the previous installment(s) of this series, here. Still, I don't want to head on to the 2nd step of the "Road to Recovery", which is going to deal with the quest for the "optimal" macronutrient ratio, without a brief reminder of the central role of nutrient availability in both the etiology, as well as the recovery from the athlete triad - or, as Dr. Zanker from the Carnegie Research Institute at the Leeds Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom puts it, the simple fact that the "exercise associated reproductive dysfunction in women is attributable to deficits of readily available energy" (Zanker. 2006) In a couple of more general remarks some of you have recently (not without good reaso...