Supplement Selection for Ultrarunning with Floris Wardenaar, PhD #217

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Episode overview:

Floris Wardenaar is an assistant professor at the College of Health Solutions since September 2017 with expertise in Performance Nutrition.

Floris's education:

• PhD Dietary exposure assessment in athletes, Wageningen University 2017
• MS Nutritional Physiology, Wageningen University 2005
• Internship, the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Kinesiology, 2005
• BS Nutrition and Dietetics, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam, HvA) 2001

Episode highlights:

(35:15) Sodium bicarbonate example: best for sprinting 30-90 seconds, lack of relevance to ultramarathon running, know what problem you are trying to solve

(51:18) Single substances: caffeine example, controlling dosage, timing, and substance, coffee example

(1:01:00) Personalized nutrition: potentially the future, testing for deficiencies, magnesium supplement example

Additional resources:

How Sports Health Professionals Perceive and Prescribe Nutritional Supplements to Olympic and Non-Olympic Athletes
AIS supplement framework
Blood Biomarkers with Charlie Pedlar, PhD | KoopCast Episode #186

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