03/29/2026
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For a long time—going back to my postdoc days—I’ve experienced firsthand how far women’s health and fitness research lags behind the male-focused default data. It’s become my life’s mission to help fix this, so today I’m extremely proud to announce a new research funding partnership that will help do exactly that.
Together with three other women, I’ve co-founded a women’s health research and intelligence platform built to close the women’s health gap by connecting researchers, businesses, and data at scale. (More to come!)
Momentous, the sports nutrition and supplement company I’ve partnered with for many years, has pledged $200,000 in year one as the founding commercial partner. This funding will be distributed—likely across multiple research grants—to directly support female-focused health and performance research.
This is incredibly meaningful to me. I’ve spent the last 25 years working to optimize women’s health and performance using a research base that was never designed for women in the first place. The lack of research puts us at a significant disadvantage—and that’s never going to change while female-specific research remains so underfunded.
Of the approximately $2.9 trillion in total private healthcare capital, only 6% is spent on conditions affecting women. In sports science, less than 6% of published research focuses solely on women, yet we’re building AI, wearables, and health platforms on that foundation.
That gap has real consequences. It means much of what we still consider “best practice”—in training, nutrition, and recovery—was built on male-only data sets.
Learn more >>> https://bit.ly/41vKeC3