#276: Nick Gant, PhD - Neurometabolism: Brain Function, Fatigue & Nutritient Interventions
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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About This Episode:
Nick Gant is Director of the Exercise Neurometabolism Laboratory at the University of Auckland.
His group uses interdisciplinary approaches from the nutritional sciences and neurosciences to investigate the role of nutrition in brain health and performance. Nick is particularly interested in foods and supplements that prevent brain fatigue and improve physical and cognitive function.
His research is currently funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, the Health Research Council of New Zealand, and several industrial partnerships. He partners with clinicians and dieticians within the NZ Centre for Brain Research and provides scientific and educational support for elite athletes, government and military organisations
In This Episode We Discuss:
- Understanding fatigue
- Hypoxia-induced decrements in cognitive performance
- Role of caffeine and stimulants in “rescuing” performance in high-fatigue/high-stress states
- Creatine for cognitive function and brain health
- Potential for creatine mitigating traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Can ketones aid in mitigating traumatic brain injury?
- Thoughts on cognitive impact of nicotine
- CHO mouth rinsing: proposed mechanism of action
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| 0:00.0 | We make them perform some movements and we work out exactly what areas of the brain are active in moving their muscle. |
| 0:17.0 | One thing you quickly realize is that the activation networks that you measure when you're resting, lying in there doing nothing, are completely different to when you're |
| 0:24.6 | doing the functional tasks. So we always have functional tasks involved in our paradigm. So in this |
| 0:29.9 | case they produce a force. And with fMRI, we look at areas of the brain that are lighting up. |
| 0:34.8 | Then we position a virtual cube inside the brain inside that area. |
| 0:39.3 | And we look at how much creatine increases in that area after supplementation. |
| 0:43.3 | And it's a substantial amount that we can easily quantify. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. As always, I'm your host, |
| 1:08.6 | Danny Lennon, and we're at episode 276 of the podcast today. |
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