Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

Welcome back to the Nutrition Science Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez.

And today I have a special episode. I'm going to be interviewing my friend Patrick McCarthy.

Patrick is a sports

nutritionist or performance nutritionist for athletes, particularly high-level basketball players.

So he works with college athletes, he works with pro athletes, he works with people who are

trying to get into college. And I know a lot of you who are listening to this right now,

you may think this may not be the episode for me, and I want to encourage you to tune in.

If you don't consider yourself an athlete, this episode is still going to be extremely

valuable for you. And what we're going to discuss today is performance nutrition,

not necessarily sports nutrition, but what can we pay attention to to help us to perform day-to-day better on a regular basis?

And this episode ended up going a little bit longer than most of the previous episodes.

I hope you guys enjoy it, though.

Let me know I'm going to be posting this episode to YouTube.

So if you're a regular listener of the show, go over to YouTube and subscribe to my channel. I'll put a link in the show notes. If you just search Dr. Adrian Chavez on YouTube, you should be able to find my page. And go and subscribe to my page. And I'm going to start posting all of the episodes on YouTube. And what that's going to allow is if you have any comments, if you have any additional questions, you can go ahead and leave those on the YouTube video, and I'll get a notification of that. And what I want you to do is if you enjoy these interview episodes being a little bit longer, I know I've tried to normally keep the episode short and I try to keep them succinct when I'm

talking about a specific topic because I don't want to go on and on and on not get to the

points. But sometimes with these interview episodes, a little bit of conversation might be helpful.

Especially in this case, you'll hear in this interview, I start asking specific questions about

my own nutrition and how I'm structuring it.

And Pat gives me some advice that I think is going to be very helpful for me

and when I start to implement that.

So I think that has a little bit of value.

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