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345: Expert Edition: Assistant Prof Patrick Wilson (PhD) REWIRED, Sport Nutrition Scientist: The Athlete’s Gut

The Physical Performance Show

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The Importance of Energy for Athletes

There's a growing recognition that low energy availability is contributing in a lot of endurance athletes to metabolic, hormonal, and performance problems if it's sustained for long periods of time. Patrick: There are problems from both underfeeling and then I don't want to call it over-refueling. If you're the athlete who is expending 4,000 calories a day and you need to eat a lot of food,. that is a challenge at times for your gastrointestinal system to kind of handle comfortably.

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