Para athletes, or athletes with a disability, require sports nutrition recommendations to be adapted to their specific sport, impairment, practical and/or medical needs. Liz Broad, Sports Dietitian, helps answer athletes and sports nutritionists questions and find ways to optimise your sporting performance through interviews with researchers, sports nutrition practitioners, coaches, athletes and other sports performance personnel.
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Para athletes, or athletes with a disability, require sports nutrition recommendations to be adapted to their specific sport, impairment, practical and/or medical needs. Liz Broad, Sports Dietitian, helps answer athletes and sports nutritionists questions and find ways to optimise your sporting performance through interviews with researchers, sports nutrition practitioners, coaches, athletes and other sports performance personnel.
Dr Ricardo Costa is a sports dietitian and the Associate Professor of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food at Monash University. Ricardo talks to us about his research into the impact of exercise on gut function and gut-related symptoms, with a focus on how to assess this and what can be done to improve symptoms for athletes.
Some references include:
Martinez et al. 2023, The Effect of Gut Training and Feeding Challenge on Markers of Gastrointestinal Status in Response to Endurance Exercise: A Systematic Literature Review. Sports Medicine.
Gaskell et al. Gastrointestinal Assessment and Management Procedures for Exercise-Associated Gastrointestinal Symptoms. Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal.
Costa et al. 2022. Assessment of Exercise-Associated Gastrointestinal Perturbations in Research and Practical Settings: Methodological Concerns and Recommendations for Best Practice. International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism.
Para Sports Nutrition
Para athletes, or athletes with a disability, require sports nutrition recommendations to be adapted to their specific sport, impairment, practical and/or medical needs. Liz Broad, Sports Dietitian, helps answer athletes and sports nutritionists questions and find ways to optimise your sporting performance through interviews with researchers, sports nutrition practitioners, coaches, athletes and other sports performance personnel.
