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🗓️ 1 March 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Episode 110: Nanci Guest, RD discusses some of her doctoral research into nutrigenomics and athletic performance. We also get into the role of nutrigenomics in creating personalized nutrition recommendations.
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0:00.0 | Because we see the same thing in caffeine research. |
0:09.0 | We'll see a sample size of 60 and maybe 40 athletes have an average positive result. |
0:16.0 | But we see many of them have no effect. |
0:19.0 | There's no difference between placebo and caffeine. |
0:22.0 | And then we see some that do exceptionally well. I'm looking to stratify my efforts by genotype |
0:28.3 | and look at a number of genes that affect caffeine metabolism and response and try to elucidate |
0:35.1 | who benefits from caffeine and who doesn't, |
0:38.1 | and who perhaps might do worse on caffeine. |
0:40.9 | Because if they're tugging back a couple of redbows before training each day, |
0:45.9 | this might be leading to episode 110. I am your host, Danny Lennon, and thank you again to all the |
1:15.4 | regular listeners of the show. I appreciate you so much. For those of you that are maybe new to the |
1:20.9 | show or the first time that you're listening, really the goal of this podcast is just to simply |
1:25.7 | give you free access to the greatest minds |
1:28.4 | on the planet in nutrition, health and performance. And keeping with that, on today's episode, |
1:36.0 | I'm going to be chatting with Nancy Guest, a PhD candidate in Nutrigenomics and its role in |
1:42.3 | athletic performance. And as well as her research into |
1:45.6 | Nutrigenomics, Nancy is also a registered dietitian and certified Strength and Additioning Specialist |
1:51.7 | and has worked with some of the very elite athletes on the planet over the past couple of decades. |
1:58.8 | And I find the whole topic of nutrigenomics fascinating |
2:03.3 | because on one end you have people who don't want to look at it at all |
2:08.6 | or are very dismissive of the field. |
2:11.0 | And then at the other you have some folks extrapolating the data |
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