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Ep 154: Which salt is best?/Fiona Moriarty
Episode 154
In this episode:
Everyone knows that sodium is an important component of sport nutrition but what form should it come in? For a long time sodium chlor…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ep 153: Doping in triathlon, the 10% question
Episode 153
In this episode:
A widely read and much discussed media article out of Germany quoted researchers who surveyed athletes at the 2024 Challenge Roth on …
1 year, 6 months ago
Ep 152: Muscle typology and training variation/Kennon Heard, cardiac arrest survivor
Episode 152
In this episode:
Skeletal muscles are made up of fast twitch and slow twitch fibers each of which has differing properties. The amount of each fiber i…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ep 151: Aging decline and gender variance?/Chris Bagg
Episode 151
In this episode:
It is a fact of life that as we age endurance performance inevitably declines. But do both genders decline at the same rate or, does …
1 year, 7 months ago
Ep: 150: Fitness and the risk of breast cancer/Doug Morris
Episode 150
In this episode:
How does cardiorespiratory fitness affect the lifetime risk of developing breast cancer in women? In the Medical Mailbag we look at n…
1 year, 8 months ago
Ep: 149: Biomechanics and running Economy/Mark Cullen
Episode 149
In this episode:
How much do biomechanics influence running economy and is this something that coaches and athletes should work on improving? New rese…
1 year, 8 months ago
Ep 148: Antihistamines and performance/Jonathan Su and the 6-minute cure for knee pain
Episode 148
In this episode:
During allergy season many use antihistamine medications as a means of controlling their symptoms. Emerging evidence suggests that th…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ep 147: Can ginseng make you faster?/Dr. Jim Taylor PhD
Episode 147
In this episode:
Ginseng is a root purported to have myriad beneficial properties making its use widespread in Chinese medicine and across the far eas…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ep 146: Strength training to improve endurance performance?/Couples' therapist Kayla Crane
Episode 146
In this episode:
Strength training is advocated for by coaches all the time in order to mitigate injury and improve endurance performance but finding …
1 year, 10 months ago
Ep 145: Pneumatic Compression Boots revisited/Dorien Morin Van Dam
Episode 145
In this episode:
I first looked at pneumatic compression boots back in episode 3 in 2019. Has there been any research published since then to suggest …
1 year, 10 months ago