The overarching reliance of sports nutrition on a quantitative view of macronutrients can short-change athletes in terms of the performance benefits derived from food and lifestyle choices. However, if we extend our approach and ask clients to eat in a way that nourishes their body systems in a personalised way, their health and vitality will improve, meaning that performance should follow. Nourishing mitochondria in athletes is diverse topic with many facets, which will be explored in this in-depth webinar.
As an illustration of integrative sports nutrition thinking in process, Ian Craig will share a renewed perspective of our mitochondria, as well as exploring perspectives for nourishing mitochondria in athletes, in particular. In addition to simply supplying ‘fuel’ to these amazingly versatile organelles, what more can we do to nourish their state of vibrancy? Antioxidant support, microbiome health, and mental wellbeing are some of the topics that Ian will consider in this context.
The human body is a higher order complex system that needs to be nourished by real foods and nutritional diversity; this can be achieved only with careful attention to food sourcing, preparation, and personalisation.
Want more information? Why not check out our short course on harnessing Mitochondrial energy? Do so here.
About Ian
Ian Craig MSc DipCNE BANT INLPTA has joint academic backgrounds in exercise physiology and nutritional therapy, and he enjoyed a 20-year career as a middle-distance athlete. He is the founder of the Centre for Integrative Sports Nutrition and course leader for the online Certificate of Integrative Sports Nutrition course, plus he teaches on the postgraduate Personalised Sports Nutrition course at CNELM. Clinically, within a team dynamic, Ian works with sporting individuals and complex health cases at his Scottish home, and online. Additionally, Ian is the editor of Functional Sports Nutrition magazine and he co-authored the Struik Lifestyle book Wholesome Nutrition with his natural chef wife Rachel Jesson.
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