SNR #257: Andrew Jagim, PhD – Pre-Workout Supplementation: Current Evidence & Recommendations

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Andrew is currently an Assistant Professor of Exercise Science in the Exercise & Performance Nutrition Laboratory at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. In the near future, Andrew will be changing jobs as he will soon be serving as the Director of Sport Medicine Research for a satellite health system of Mayo Clinic in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Andrew earned his Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education and Exercise Science at the University of North Dakota. He went on to complete a Master’s degree in Human Performance at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse. He later completed his PhD in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology at Texas A&M University, working under Dr. Richard Kreider in the Exercise and Sport Nutrition Lab. His primary research area focuses on the use of different nutritional and training strategies to improve measures of performance and health which has led to several publications in peer reviewed journals and has presented at multiple national conference events. He currently is investigating the prevalence of use and supplementation habits of pre-workout supplement users in addition to monitoring changes in energy availability and body composition throughout a season in several team sport athletes. Andrew is also a co-host for the podcast Clinically Pressed.

In This Episode We Discuss

Caffeine
Beta-alanine
Sodium bicarbonate
Citrulline
Beetroot juice
Making sure no banned substances found in your supplement
Which compounds are likely to benefit each type of sport
What steps to take to get the best quality product

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0:00.0	I think there is some erogenic potential with citrolin as an agent and its ability to kind of promote acute increases in blood flow and nitric oxide or be a nitric oxide production, whether or not that necessarily translates to a performance benefit, I think is still somewhat unknown.
0:30.6	And just even that, the overall underlying question of does increase blood flow again translate to improve performance at first thought
0:39.3	you would certainly think that how could it not but a lot of the research hasn't
0:43.3	kind of definitively supported that hypothesis yet so Hello and welcome.
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2:20.6	So let's jump into today's episode and I'm going to be talking with Dr. Andrew Jagam, who is currently
2:27.8	an assistant professor of exercise science in the exercise and performance nutrition lab at
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