Ian Craig MSc DipCNE INLPTA FBANT is the founder of the Centre for Integrative Sports Nutrition (CISN) and course leader of their online postgraduate level courses.
With his joint academic backgrounds in exercise physiology and nutritional therapy, and a long career as a British middle-distance athlete and coach, he has been developing the concept of integrative sports nutrition for the past twenty years; a fast-evolving discipline that considers both the health and performance of an athlete from an integrative health perspective.
He is the coauthor of Wholesome Nutrition with his natural chef wife Rachel Jesson, and is currently co-writing the Textbook of Integrative Sport and Exercise Nutrition with Professor Justin Roberts of Anglia Ruskin University, to be published by Routledge in 2025.
Additionally, as co-founder of the Nutritional Institute, Ian is a clinical practitioner, based in his native Scotland. His client base ranges from chronic health cases, such as autoimmunity, through recreational and elite athletes, to sports and lifestyle induced low-grade chronic fatigue syndrome.
He gained his BSc in Physiology & Sports Science from the University of Glasgow, his MSc in Exercise Physiology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and his BSc in Nutritional Therapy at the Centre for Nutrition Education and Lifestyle Management, validated by Middlesex University in London. Ian is a fellow and professional member of the British Association for Applied Nutrition & Nutritional Therapy (BANT).
