EP 573: 5 Biomarkers Every Runner Should Know About

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Biomarkers help us understand what is going on inside our bodies. There are many that are very important to endurance athletes. In this episode Ashley Reaver helps us identify five of these biomarkers, why they are important, what is the normal range and what can we do to correct them if they are outside the normal range.

Ashley Reaver is a registered sports dietician with a masters in Nutrition Science and Policy. She offers nutrition counseling in her private practice and a full-time teacher of nutrition and dietetics courses at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also the lead nutritional scientist at Inside Tracker.

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0:00.0	And I can absolutely say I've seen people with 24 packs that look like garbage on the inside.
0:08.3	There's so many different measurements of health, but what we have decided health looks
0:12.8	like doesn't really have anything to do with how healthy someone is on the inside.
0:29.2	Welcome to the trailhead of TrailRunner Nation where we go on virtual trail runs with interesting
0:33.6	guests that talk to us about the science and inspiration to help us become better runners and
0:40.0	hopefully better human beings. If it's your first time, you are always welcome here. Let's get
0:45.4	down the trail. Today we're running with Ashley Reaver and she is an expert at the biomarkers.
0:50.8	What are biomarkers? We're going to find out and how they're important to you to be successful
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