Season 2, Ep. 14: Gut Training for Endurance Athletes with Patrick Wilson
Endurance Unlimited
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The Psychology of Gut Problems in Athletes
There's lots of anecdotes of recreational and professional athletes experiencing gut issues, nausea, vomiting before competition because of how stressed and anxious they are. The question is what can we do about it practically to get a handle on this? I've got a PhD student who's hoping to do some research this year to address this actually with an intervention. What you might try as an athlete at this point is going to be something like slow deep breathing, mindfulness, cognitive behavior therapy, maybe relaxing music.
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