Dr. Marc Bubbs
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Connecting you with world-leading experts in performance nutrition and the latest evidence-based research to level up your team sport, endurance, physique and weight-making sport nutrition.The Performance Nutrition Podcast brings you in-depth conversational interviews with expert PhDs, doctors, athletes, researchers, strength and coaches to share their research, insights, and stories to inform your practice and take your game to the next level.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Research meets real-world performance here, with careful attention to uncertainty, behavior, recovery, and the person expected to follow the plan.
Dr. Mark Bubbs treats performance nutrition as an applied conversation rather than a parade of protocols. His interviews keep returning to the person behind the plan: the runner trying to recover, the patient struggling with hunger, or the athlete whose performance problem…
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An ancestral nutrition conversation that stays grounded in sodium, potassium, and the tradeoffs between performance and long-term health.
The conversation starts with a new Paleo book, but it keeps widening into the old question of how to eat for a body built under different conditions. Dr.
A focused look at how performance nutrition research translates, or fails to, in elite sport.
The episode follows Dr. Andreas Kasper and Dr. Bubz as they trace the gap between performance nutrition research and the decisions made in elite sport.
A practical look at ultramarathon fueling that pushes back on low-carb shorthand.
Dr. Mark Bubbs and Dr. Justin Roberts treat ultramarathon fueling as a whole-body question, not a race-day gel problem. Daily caloric needs, carbohydrate availability, and training load are shown as central to performance, recovery, and health.
A practical fertility conversation that turns nutrition and lifestyle into concrete levers.
The episode treats fertility as a practical problem, with nutrition and daily habits framed as levers that can influence conception before bigger interventions come into view.
A marathon nutrition conversation with practical recovery takeaways.
Marathon training here is treated as more than just logging miles. The discussion moves from aerobic fitness and blood vessel health to fueling, recovery, bone health, and the small nutrition choices that shape how training feels day to day.
Protein, aging, muscle, and daily movement are handled as practical questions, not gym folklore.
This episode treats protein as a practical lens on aging, muscle, and longevity. Professor Stu Phillips comes across as a leading voice on protein and muscle, with the discussion staying close to protein intake, muscle protein turnover, and the plain connection between…
A grounded performance conversation that keeps circling back to what actually changes behavior in games.
Drew Hanlen argues for a simple idea: training only matters if it shows up in games. Dr. Mark Bubbs guides the conversation through Hanlen’s path into high performance, his work with NBA players, and the book Stop Bullshitting Yourself.
A grounded season opener on GLP-1s, appetite, and the stepwise work behind lasting change.
Dr. Crystal Guevara keeps the season opener steady and plainspoken, with the focus on GLP-1 medications, weight loss, and the slower work of managing appetite. The tone stays clinical without turning stiff, and it treats lasting change as a process rather than a promise.
Researchers, doctors and coaches, translated into everyday health stakes.
Supplement labels, decoded with conviction.
Practical health conversations for reducing overwhelm.
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Will Greenberg, assistant strength coach for the Buffalo Bills, uses his talk "Five Things I've Changed My Mind About" to explain why trust, context, and action matter more than raw information.
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Carl Valle frames blood biomarkers as one part of a larger system that also includes DEXA scans, GPS or wearables, heart rate, HRV, and athlete relationships.
Tyler Ennis describes a career path shaped by two major injuries, a broken tibia and fibula in Turkey in 2018 and an Achilles rupture soon after, before returning to win a cup championship with Napoli in Italy.
Mark Bubbs introduces Kate Calloway, performance dietitian for the NFL’s Carolina Panthers, as a speaker from the 2022 APN Online Summit and frames the talk as practical nutrition work in elite sport.
Stephanie Mock Grubbs, the new assistant strength and conditioning coach with the Houston Astros, traces her path from a 5'3" West Virginia volleyball player to leadership roles at Clemson, Pittsburgh, Mississippi State, and pro baseball.
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Season 10 opens with a conversation about GLP-1 medications, hunger, and weight change.
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Mark Bubbs closes season seven with a highlight reel built from standout conversations from the last seven years.
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The episode returns to the roots of the Paleo Diet.