World Champion 200m queen, Dina Asher-Smith calls out the lack of research into how periods effect sporting performance and the sexist way they are treated and not discussed in the latest episode of my podcast, Reign with Josh Smith. Listen to the full episode here: http://hyperurl.co/i4yxt0 - it's available wherever you get your podcasts from now.

In a fascinating and eye-opening discussion Dina opens up about how periods have effected her own sporting performance - even causing injury - and calls out the sporting industry for not doing more research into periods. This quote really stood out to me: "If men went through something that changed their makeup, or made your tendons more floppy, changed the way that your back was, made you lose sleep, vomit sometimes, and be in so much pain then we would absolutely have a billion strategies around it."

Elsewhere in the episode Dina opens up about the valuable mental health lessons she has taken from working with a sports psychologist and reflects on her own changing relationship with success and failure.

I hope you will be as inspired by Dina’s incredible mindset like I was and I also hope you continue to listen and find the power to Reign in your own lives. If you love this episode, please get in touch (follow me across social media @joshsmithhosts), I love hearing from you. Love, Josh xxx

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