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Para athletes, or athletes with a disability, require sports nutrition recommendations to be adapted to their specific sport, impairment, practical and/or medical needs. Liz Broad, Sports Dietitian, helps answer athletes and sports nutritionists questions and find ways to optimise your sporting performance through interviews with researchers, sports nutrition practitioners, coaches, athletes and other sports performance personnel.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded look at CP soccer prep, with nutrition details that feel lived in rather than scripted.
This episode follows Joshua Brunet and Jake Kaplan as they prepare with the USA Parasoccer CP football team for the Parapan American Games in Chile. It gives the sport and the food talk the same weight, which works here.
Practical sports nutrition becomes a lesson in accessibility and better assumptions.
Kate Davis offers sports nutrition in a grounded, practical register. She moves from her path through U.S. training and private practice to work with the U.S.
Masha Gessen narrates her own cousin's murder-for-hire arrest and custody battle.
Rich Roll interviews recovery and endurance guests, plus 'Roll On' segments with Adam Skolnick.
Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Rhonda Patrick translates NAD, vitamin D, and coffee research into daily health protocols.
Shawn Stevenson interviews researchers and coaches on nutrition, sleep, hormones, and fitness.
Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-hosts field Cosmic Queries on physics, space, and beyond.
A traumatic brain injury from a helicopter crash became the catalyst for discovering Paralympics soccer.
Sports dietitian Kate Davis discusses her work with the US goalball teams, focusing on the unique nutritional and practical challenges of supporting elite athletes with visual impairments.
Liz Broad interviews Erin Popovich, a 14-time Paralympic gold medalist and Director of US Paraswimming, about her route from achondroplasia and fear of water to elite competition.
Sean Pollard tells Liz Broad how a 2015 snowboarding trip to Mount Buller followed a shark attack in Esperance that cost him his left arm and right hand at age 23.
Trinity Lothian, a Canadian wheelchair fencer and nutrition student, describes developing autoimmune autonomic neuropathy, two bouts of meningitis, and full-time wheelchair use.
Liz Broad interviews Raquel Teixeira, a sports nutritionist at Porto Football Club, about nutrition support for athletes with intellectual impairments.