#306: Daniel Davey – Food Preparation Skills, Being an Effective Nutritionist & Creativity

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🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Davey has worked as a performance nutritionist with a host of elite athletes in a range of sports such as golf, athletics, rugby and GAA.

He is perhaps best known for his roles working as a performance nutritionist with with Leinster Rugby and the Dublin senior footballers.

Daniel holds an MSc in Nutrition, Physical Activity & Public Health from the University of Bristol, in addition to a BSc in Science from University College Dublin.

As an athlete Daniel has played Gaelic football at intercounty level for Sligo and won an All-Ireland club football medal in 2016 with Ballyboden St’ Enda’s in Dublin.

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0:00.0	Hello, you are listening to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you conversations
0:05.1	about nutritional and health science.
0:08.1	I am your host, as always, Danny Lennon, and we're at episode 306 of the podcast today.
0:15.9	Learning about what foods and or diet patterns one should follow is undoubtedly an important step to improving one's health.
0:24.6	And the benefits can be enormous over the course of a lifespan.
0:28.6	And it's something we discuss pretty much every week on this show.
0:32.6	But often there is a disconnect between this knowledge of what to eat and being able to include that within
0:40.6	our lifestyle consistently and in a manner that doesn't hamper all the things we enjoy about our life.
0:47.6	And of course, this concept of application and practical application has many different
0:53.6	components to it and many different
0:55.7	influencing factors. But one that is perhaps overlooked is the competency in food preparation
1:02.5	that is required or at least very beneficial to actually making eating healthily enjoyable,
1:10.0	doable and something we can connect a sense of achievement to.
1:14.5	And today's guest, Daniel Davy, has had this philosophy run through the center of his work
1:20.3	in elite sport for many, many years at this point. And he's been a master in taking sound sports
1:26.6	nutrition principles and translating them not only into understandable food-based terms for athletes, but has also empowered them to be able to make better choices subconsciously, to be creative with their meals, to understand what is in their food, and to teach them how to be able to take control of the food they're eating with it still tasting good.
1:48.0	And beyond all of that, Daniel's experiences in elite sport have provided him with some crucial insights and lessons that are not possible to learn in a nutrition education. Those experiences, of course, include
2:03.6	his long-time roles as performance nutritionist for Lentster Rugby and for the Dublin senior footballers.
2:10.6	Both of those teams, of course, have achieved unprecedented success in that time, as well as in other sports, athletics, golf and elsewhere
2:19.1	that he's worked with athletes.
2:21.5	Those insights that I mentioned that you would learn through the course of working in that
2:26.4	environment would include things such as how to work with different personality types,
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