s2/e14 Iron for Runners: What You Need To Know with Dr. McKale Montgomery, MS, PhD
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Running Explained
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🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Dr. McKale Montgomery, 2:34 marathoner and iron researcher, joins the show this week to discuss her two great loves: endurance running and iron!! Learn all about iron and the role it plays in our body every day, the importance of iron for endurance performance (and health), and more!
- What role does iron play in our body?
- Why is sufficient iron important specifically for running performance?
- Iron deficiency/anemia & causes & risk factors
- Iron overload & causes
- Iron absorption & metabolism
- The daily iron needs of the average runner
- PLUS learn about McKale's elite-level training and her big upcoming goals!
Dr. McKale Montgomery, MS, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Oklahoma State University, and has a marathon PR pf 2:34:36. In her lab, she studies how perturbations in cellular iron metabolism influence both health outcomes and disease progression. You can find her on Twitter at @McKaleDavis
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Elisabeth Scott is the founder and head coach at Running Explained. She holds certifications from RRCA, USATF, and UESCA and is on a mission to get runners to slow the heck down on their easy runs. Find her at www.runningexplained.co and on Instagram at @runningexplained
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:08.2 | When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my |
| 0:14.5 | own to figure all of the answers. So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a better, |
| 0:21.4 | smarter, |
| 0:22.9 | faster runner. |
| 0:26.6 | There's no question too simple and no topic too complex. |
| 0:27.7 | So let's get started. |
| 0:34.2 | My guest this week is elite marathoner and iron researcher Dr. Mikhail Montgomery. |
| 0:38.0 | I mean, when do you find an elite marathoner who is also an iron researcher to come on your podcast, talk about iron for runners? It is the perfect marriage of topics for |
| 0:43.8 | today. When she is not training to run Olympic trials qualifying times in the marathon, Dr. Montgomery |
| 0:49.3 | works at Oklahoma State University, setting iron metabolism. Not necessarily the stuff we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:56.3 | Our topic today is relatively superficial when it comes to how iron works in your body compared |
| 1:01.4 | to the research that she's doing. |
| 1:02.6 | But whoa, does she know a whole lot about iron? |
| 1:04.8 | If you have any questions about how iron works in your body, why iron is so important for endurance athletics, |
| 1:12.4 | why anemia is so common among runners, what happens if you have too much iron in your body, |
| 1:17.1 | and what the training of an elite level marathoner looks like, who also works a full-time job |
| 1:22.4 | and has a family, this conversation is for you. |
| 1:26.7 | Dr. Mikhail Montgomery, welcome to the show. |
| 1:28.9 | I'm very excited to have you here. |
| 1:30.6 | I thank you for the invite. |
| 1:32.1 | I appreciate that. |
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