Welcome to AMR Trains, a podcast about training and racing and

endurance sports. I'm Dimmity McDowell co-founder of another brother. Today we're

headed into your stomach and intestines into the ubiquitous row of porta-potties of every race start.

I'm talking to Dr. Patrick Wilson, author of the newly released book The Athletes Gut,

The Inside Science of Digestion, Nutrition, and Stum. the at Old Dominion University, where he also directs the Human Performance Laboratory.

He earned a bachelor's degree in Dietetics

from Minnesota State University

and a master's and doctoral degrees

in exercise physiology from the University of Minnesota.

Patrick lives with his family including about a one and a half to two year old in Norfolk, Virginia.

Welcome, Patrick.

How you doing today?

Thanks for the invite.

I'm doing quite well, Dimmity.

I'm glad to talk to you about this issue,

because it's something that affects a lot of athletes.

So it's fun, if not sometimes, you know, gross topic to talk about on occasion.

Absolutely.

We have around another mother runner.

We have TMI Tuesdays, too much information Tuesday, so like nothing's off topic around here.

But before we get into this, we want to know a little bit about yourself, Patrick. What's your athletic background and what do you like to do these days for exercise?

I grew up playing basketball across country. In college I did more distance running.

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