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Keeping TrackAuthor: Evergreen Podcasts
Alysia Montano, Molly Huddle and Roisin McGettigan are three Olympians, from 2 countries, including 2 Moms and 1 current pro coming together to talk about the inspiring figures, important topics and interesting stories in women's sports. We care about the landscape and future of our sport of Track and Field and we want to create more media coverage of women's sports in general. We'll be interviewing inspiring athletes, and discussing topics and news in the track world and beyond. Thanks for Keeping Track with us! Language: en-us Genres: News, Running, Sports, Sports News Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Athlete Moms Who Breastfeed : Setting Records of Human Metabolism
Episode 3
Tuesday, 26 August, 2025
We couldn't let National Breastfeeding month go by without a research spotlight, we hear from Dr. Nicole Danos. Dr. Danos talks about the limits of human metabolism being pushed during lactation, how the body may adapt to this, and how this affects an animal's (and woman’s) muscles and tendons. Not much is known in scientific literature about lactation and the complex effects it has on the body. Thankfully Dr. Danos is doing this important work in understanding womens health and she broke it down for us to understand today. Running Moms- this one speaks to you!Dr. Danos received her PHD in Biology from Harvard and is currently an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of San Diego. She is a broadly trained Vertebrate Comparative Anatomist who uses model and non-model organisms to study relationships between form and function. Her studies focus on anatomy and mechanical properties of tissues, especially soft tissue,and how these might contribute to critical organismal functions like walking, and eating. We talk in this episode about a few papers but mostly reference her recent paper called , you can read it here:Effects of pregnancy and lactation on muscle tendon morphologyHer recent study
