And that's what causes GI problems, so a lot of stomach issues that people experience during exercise.

That Traflon Show, episode 41.

Hey, what's up everybody?

Welcome back to that triathlon show.

The podcast presented by Scientific Triathlon.com.

I'm your host, Michael, and today's episode is a natural progression on the last episode that we had with Jesse Kropolniki.

We will continue to talk about nutrition today, but from a slightly different angle.

So my guest today is Ted Munson, who is a performance nutritionist at Science in Sport,

which is a leading sports nutrition company from the UK.

And what you will learn in this interview is, among other things, whether you should choose an isotonic, hypotonic or hypotonic gel or sport drink for your race and training fuel.

What electrolytes and sodium content should you be looking for when you're selecting your

gels or sports drinks?

And you'll get a sip-by-sip guide to hydration and nutrition in both sprint and iron distance

races.

Plus as a little bonus, Ted talks about the immense power of caffeine,

which the numbers actually surprised me, but you'll learn more about that in the interview.

So, as I said, a slight different angle compared to the one with Jesse.

We have two nutrition episodes in a row, and usually I like to vary the content,

but I think that in this case it's important to have these episodes right after each other

while the first one is in fresh memory so that you can see the similarities, but also some of

the differences. And we talk about those differences with ted but the main point

of this interview is more about going into into some of the more technical stuff as well for what

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