%0 Journal Article
%T Humid heat stress affects trained female athletes more than does their menstrual phase
%A Toby M¨šndel
%A Tze-Huan Lei
%J Archive of "Temperature: Multidisciplinary Biomedical Journal".
%D 2018
%R 10.1080/23328940.2018.1436394
%X The prevailing view is that healthy, pre-menopausal women with a regular menstrual cycle face a performance disadvantage and increased risk for heat illness when exercising in a hot environment during their luteal (post-ovulatory) phase. In our recent Journal of Physiology article [1], we challenged this view and demonstrated that for trained females their menstrual phase was of little physiological or performance consequence during self-paced exercise but that the thermal profile of the environment (dry vs. humid) was important
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6205064/