#389: Renee McGregor, RD – Why Are Athletes Under-Eating?
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Renee McGregor is a leading sports dietitian, specialising in Eating Disorders, REDs, The Female Athlete, athlete health and performance.
She is regularly asked to work directly with high performing and professional athletes that have developed a dysfunctional relationship with food that is impacting their performance, health and career. Her practice and knowledge is supported by extensive experience of working in both clinical and performance nutrition, including, Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth teams.
She is the co-founder and director of #TRAINBRAVE a campaign raising the awareness of eating disorders in sport; providing resources and practical strategies to reduce the prevalence.
She is on the REDS advisory board for BASES (The British Association of Sport and Exercise Science) and sits on the International Task Force for Orthorexia.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode |
| 0:19.4 | 389 of the podcast. And today I'm absolutely delighted to be joined by Renee |
| 0:25.7 | McGregor, who is a leading sports dietitian who has a speciality in eating disorders and works with a lot of athletes who have either developed an eating disorder or who have developed symptoms of reds, |
| 0:40.9 | which will probably get into, and some other related topics. So it's a conversation I think is |
| 0:46.7 | going to do a lot of good for a lot of people. So with that, Renee, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:51.5 | Thank you for having me, Danny. I'm looking forward to this chat. |
| 0:54.7 | So, yeah, let's crack on. |
| 0:57.1 | Cool. |
| 0:57.7 | So I also gave just a very brief introduction there to you, but in terms of your own background |
| 1:03.1 | and various things that you've been involved with all the way up to what your current work looks like |
| 1:09.2 | and what you're, I suppose, most passionate about right now. Can you give a typical overview for people that might serve some useful |
| 1:15.9 | context for some of the topics we may get into? |
| 1:18.2 | Yeah, sure. I mean, I guess I started life, believe it or not, I did a biochemistry degree. |
| 1:23.0 | And from then on in, I moved into dietetics. So I became a registered dietitian and did the very |
| 1:29.9 | classic kind of I suppose I always I always compare it like a junior doctor in the |
| 1:34.6 | sense that you spend I mean I spent seven years working up you know you do a lot of |
| 1:39.5 | general a lot of general stuff in the sense that you basically cover every single ward. I remember my first job |
| 1:46.4 | was at St. George's and I think I had like 15 wards. So, you know, you never really sit down and |
| 1:51.0 | that range from geriatrics to diabetes to gastroenterology. So you get a really good grounding |
| 1:59.4 | in clinical nutrition and also working within those multidisciplinary teams. So you know, you learn how to work with physio and how to work with medics and, you know, speech therapists, etc, etc. And I then slowly, I suppose, you start to specialize and, you know, every sort of 18 months your rotation changes and it becomes more and more |
| 2:17.9 | narrow is kind of way to think about it so I kind of moved into pediatrics actually and did a lot of |
| 2:26.7 | working pediatrics and then when I got to that stage did a further qualification in pediatric |
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