Iron for Runners: What You Need to Know with Pam Hinton

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🗓️ 14 October 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As runners, we strive to do our best and we know how important nutrition is to running our best. Yet, we often hear about how many runners don’t get enough vitamins and minerals in their diet.

In today’s episode, you’ll learn more about nutritional deficiencies, the science behind them, and how to correct them once and for all. If you’ve ever wondered whether you need to take iron, calcium or any other supplement, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll also talk about various studies done on bone density, bone loss and nutrition, and their surprising findings, diet recommendations for sports performance, and much more.

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0:00.0	Of the iron we ingest we only absorb a very small percentage of it and the percentage that we
0:06.5	absorb is higher if we're getting ironed from meat.
0:11.1	Welcome to the Runners Connect, run to the top podcast,
0:16.0	where it's all about learning from the best minds in the sport
0:19.0	so you can train smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now.
0:23.0	And now your host, Tina Muir.
0:26.0	Hello, this is Tina Muir.
0:28.0	Thank you so much for taking the time to tune in today.
0:31.0	I really appreciate you giving your time to listen to me, talk to my
0:34.9	guest today and I think you're going to get a lot out of it. Speaking of guests, did you
0:39.6	listen to last week's podcast episode yet with Fernando Cabada. It was seriously one of the most
0:45.3	inspirational talks I've ever heard and you are going to love it so if you haven't
0:49.5	listened to it yet make sure after you listen to this one you check it out runners connect
0:53.7	dot net for slash rc 75 so as runners we want to be the best we can be and we know
1:00.4	how important nutrition is to running our best, yet we often hear about how runners do not get enough of certain vitamins and minerals.
1:08.0	Iron is obviously one of the most common ones.
1:11.0	I thought I'd bring on an expert, not just someone who's read the studies, but who's
1:16.3	completed the studies and found some really interesting results. If you ever wondered if you needed
1:22.1	iron or calcium or even any other supplement, this is just what you are looking for.
1:27.0	Trust me, I spent hours googling this stuff and this episode has so much more information packed in and it truly is from an expert.
1:35.0	So my guest today is Pam Hinton. She is the Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies,
1:41.0	along with being in the Department of Nutrition and
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