SNR #143: Keith Baar, PhD - Tendon Stiffness, Collagen Production & Gelatin for Performance & Injury

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 13 September 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Episode 143: Muscle physiology researcher Dr. Keith Baar from the University of California at Davis is on the show to discuss his teams work looking at nutrional and training strategies that can increase tendon stiffness, hence playing a role in injury prevention and the recovery process from tendon/ligament ruptures and bone/cartilage damage.

Dr. Keith Baar is the head of the Functional Molecular Biology Laboratory (FMBL) in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and behavior. His research is focused on understanding how training and feeding result in
improved muscle, tendon and ligament function. In his capacity as a researcher, he has made fundamental discoveries on how muscle grows bigger, stronger, and more fatigue resistant.

Over the last 15 years, Keith has applied these discoveries working as a scientific advisor to a number of athletic teams/organizations including: Chelsea Football Club, USA Track and Field, Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, British Cycling, The English Institute of Sport, Leicester Tigers Rugby, and the Oklahoma City Thunder. In this capacity he works to maximize the effects of training for both endurance and strength and minimize
injury.

His most recent work focuses on connective tissues like tendons and ligaments. The podcast will discuss the most recent work designed to determine how to best train and what types of foods compliment training to decrease tendon and ligament injury and accelerate return to play.

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0:00.0	What we found is that if we added amino acids that were enriched in collagen,
0:26.6	we could increase the strength of our engineered ligaments.
0:34.6	By giving them the supplement an hour beforehand, what we're doing is we're getting them
0:40.3	to do their exercise when the nutrients are at their peak.
0:44.3	The Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you evidence-based discussions with the world's leading researchers and practitioners in fields related to nutrition and performance.
1:17.6	I am your host, Danny Lennon, and you are listening to Episode 143. Before we get into the interview, especially after all the questions and inquiries are received off the back of last week's episode,
1:25.6	which was related to some of the topics that come up in it
1:28.8	within our coaching process here at Sigma.
1:31.6	I just want to outline a couple of things just to cover off typical questions that were coming in.
1:37.1	So we offer an extremely comprehensive weekly coaching service where you'll work intensively one-on-one with one of the
1:46.6	Sigma Nutrition and Performance coaches. You've the option of nutrition-only coaching, if you have
1:52.3	your own training sorted or you have someone else doing your programming, or you have the option
1:57.3	to combine the nutrition coaching with training programming, so whether that's
2:01.4	S&C if you're an athlete, whether just to get you a bit stronger to get in shape, we can cover
2:05.9	off your training and exercise, or then we have specifically powerlifting programming as well
2:10.5	if you are a lifter. So if you're interested in learning more about any of that and seeing our
2:16.3	application process and just who we work with, because we're quite specific about who we do work with, if you just
2:22.4	go to sigmautrition.com and just look for online coaching tab in the menu, and then you can find
2:29.2	the details there about who we work with and how to apply if that's of interest. So getting on to today's episode,
2:36.5	and I'm just absolutely delighted to be joined by a really truly brilliant academic
2:42.2	and one of the smartest guys you will ever listen to in relation to muscle physiology.
2:47.7	So Dr. Keith Barr from University of California at Davis. Keith has been really one of the
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