Real Health Radio 168: Interview with Renee McGregor

Описание: https://seven-health.com/2019/10/168-...
Hosted by Chris Sandel, nutritionist, coach and eating disorder expert.

This week I chat with sports and eating disorder specialist dietitian, Renee McGregor. We cover RED-S, Hypothalamic Amenorrhea, and orthorexia. We also dive into Renee's history with an eating disorder, which she hasn't discussed publicly before now.

Renee McGregor is a leading Sports and Eating disorder specialist dietitian with 20 years experience working in clinical and performance nutrition, with Olympic (London, 2012), Paralympic (Rio, 2016) and Commonwealth (Queensland, 2018) teams.

She works with individuals, athletes of all levels and ages, coaches and sports science teams to provide nutritional strategies to enhance sport performance, manage eating disorders and overtraining.

She is presently working with a number of national governing bodies, including Scottish Gymnastics, Scottish Ballet, and The GB 24 hour Running squad.

She is regularly asked to work directly with National Governing Bodies and institutes, high performing and professional athletes that have developed a dysfunctional relationship with food that is impacting their performance, health and career.

She is the best-selling author of Training Food, Fast Fuel books and Orthorexia, When Healthy Eating Goes Bad.

She is the co- founder of #TRAINBRAVE a campaign raising the awareness of eating disorders in sport and dance; providing resources and practical strategies to reduce the prevalence.

In 2019 she collaborated with Dr. Nicky Keay and they have together opened the first Sports Endocrine nutrition clinic in the UK, looking at hormonal profiles in order to optimize health, training and sports performance.

She is on the REDS advisory board for BASES (The British Association of Sport and Exercise Science) and sits on the International Task Force for Orthorexia.

She is on the advisory board for The Be Well Collective, a charitable initiative that aims to bring nutritional education and mental health coaching to the world of fashion models; the women and men that represent society’s aesthetic paradigm yet off camera often face the greatest body consciousness, self-esteem, and stress-related issues.

Renee has been invited to speak at several high profile events including The European Eating Disorder Society Annual Conference as the UK expert in Orthorexia, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham Science Festival, The Stylist Show and Google.

She writes for many national publications and is often asked to comment in the national press. She regularly contributes to radio and TV, including News night, BBC 5 Live and Radio 4.

Here’s what we talk about in this podcast episode:
0:00 Intro
5:30 A bit about Renee's background
13:00 What was food like for her growing up?
15:20 The personal challenges she faced as a child
30:25 Why Renee doesn't tell her clients that she used to have an eating disorder
33:40 How her family reacted + what her recovery looked like
44:10 What treatment she went through
45:30 What is RED-S?
49:20 Why Voluntary RED-S is essentially an eating disorder
52:50 Does she see any men with similar issues?
57:20 Does she think RED-S is getting more public attention?
1:03:15 Does she change her approach based on if her client is a professional athlete or not?
1:04:40 What is hypothalamic amenorrhea + the importance of lookin at the big picture
1:08:50 Renee's take on treatment of HA
1:12:25 How Chris's approach differs
1:15:00 What Renee suggests on the food front + what is mechanical eating
1:23:10 What is orthorexia and where did it come from?
1:27:00 Have there been advances in orthorexia diagnosis?
1:28:50 Is "clean eating" over?

Here's how you can connect with Renee:
Website: https://reneemcgregor.com/
Instagram:   / r_mcgregor  
Twitter:   / mcgregor_renee  

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