The Performance Nutrition Podcast
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.
Episodes

Thursday Jun 21, 2018
Thursday Jun 21, 2018
Season 2 Episode #23, Dr. Bubbs interviews Ramsey Nijem MS, the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the NBA’s Sacramento Kings. In this episode, Ramsey will discuss workload monitoring in team sport, the acute to chronic ratio and the relationship that exists between workload, fatigue, and injury. He’ll share his insights on the fine balance between pushing athletes too hard and not hard enough, how to balance out workloads in team sports when players are logging vastly different minutes, as well as navigating the inter-individual responses to training.
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PEAK40: The New Science of Midlife Health for a Leaner, Stronger Body and Sharper Mind
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Friday Jun 15, 2018
Friday Jun 15, 2018
Season 2 Episode #22, Dr. Bubbs interviews Dr. Richard Maurer ND, author of The Blood Code to talk about the top blood tests and biomarkers for health and longevity. In this episode, Dr. Maurer discusses measures of insulin resistance and how it may impact your health and nutrition choices, the value of the Tg/HDL ratio in heart health and how it compares to more conventional markers, thyroid markers, key micronutrients and the role of inflammation in health and longevity.
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BOOKS:
PEAK: The New Science of Athletic Performance That Is Revolutionizing Sport (#1 BEST SELLER)
PEAK40: The New Science of Midlife Health for a Leaner, Stronger Body and Sharper Mind
PERFORMANCE NUTRITION PODCAST (PNP):
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Saturday Jun 09, 2018
Saturday Jun 09, 2018
Season 2 Episode #21, Dr. Bubbs chats with figure competitor, fitness model and former track and field coach Alicia Bell to discuss prep for figure competition. In this episode, Alicia talks nutrition, training and supplement strategies she uses to beat the competition: how far out from competition she starts dieting, her macro splits and percentage calorie drops from week to week. She discusses her preferred cardio, from steady-state to HIIT, as well as her favourite recovery strategies like infra-red sauna and cryotherapy.
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BOOKS:
PEAK: The New Science of Athletic Performance That Is Revolutionizing Sport (#1 BEST SELLER)
PEAK40: The New Science of Midlife Health for a Leaner, Stronger Body and Sharper Mind
PERFORMANCE NUTRITION PODCAST (PNP):
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Friday Jun 01, 2018
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Season 2 Episode #20, Dr. Bubbs interviews award-winning writer Amit Katwala to discuss how the athletic brain impacts performance. In this episode, Amit discusses how the art of anticipation and high-speed decision making sets elite athlete’s brains apart from the rest of us, describes what happens in the brain when athletes overthink during competition, reviews the connection between brain neuroplasticity, BDNF and dopamine, how to get into a flow-state, strategies for performing under pressure and much more.
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BOOKS:
PEAK: The New Science of Athletic Performance That Is Revolutionizing Sport (#1 BEST SELLER)
PEAK40: The New Science of Midlife Health for a Leaner, Stronger Body and Sharper Mind
PERFORMANCE NUTRITION PODCAST (PNP):
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-jYKOZ4ZzlAJfVexEp0NtQ
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Thursday May 24, 2018
Thursday May 24, 2018
Season 2 Episode #19, Dr. Bubbs sits down with Greg Nuckols MSc, exercise physiologist with special research interest in strength development and former world-record holding powerlifter. In this episode, Greg talks about the history and theory of periodization, concurrent training, the interference effect and factors to consider for strength and team sport athletes.
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PEAK: The New Science of Athletic Performance That Is Revolutionizing Sport (#1 BEST SELLER)
PEAK40: The New Science of Midlife Health for a Leaner, Stronger Body and Sharper Mind
PERFORMANCE NUTRITION PODCAST (PNP):
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-jYKOZ4ZzlAJfVexEp0NtQ
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Friday May 18, 2018
Friday May 18, 2018
Season 2 Episode #18, Dr. Bubbs sits down with Alessandro Ferretti to discuss the role of fasted morning glucose as a marker for health, recovery and longevity. Alessandro discusses his recent research with Dr. Daniel Plews and Prof Paul Laursen on the effects of a ketogenic diet on HIIT training performance and the keys of how to interpret them into your practice.
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PEAK: The New Science of Athletic Performance That Is Revolutionizing Sport (#1 BEST SELLER)
PEAK40: The New Science of Midlife Health for a Leaner, Stronger Body and Sharper Mind
PERFORMANCE NUTRITION PODCAST (PNP):
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Thursday May 10, 2018
Thursday May 10, 2018
In Season 2 Episode #17, Dr. Bubbs interviews Dr. Michael Lewis, MD to discuss the applications of high-dose omega-3 supplementation in concussions. In this episode, Dr. Lewis reviews the pathophysiology of concussion and how it unfolds in two distinct phases, which athletes are at the highest risk of concussion, his research into the use of high-dose omega-3 for concussion in the military, protocols for omega-3 use with concussion.
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PEAK: The New Science of Athletic Performance That Is Revolutionizing Sport (#1 BEST SELLER)
PEAK40: The New Science of Midlife Health for a Leaner, Stronger Body and Sharper Mind
PERFORMANCE NUTRITION PODCAST (PNP):
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-jYKOZ4ZzlAJfVexEp0NtQ
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Thursday Apr 26, 2018
Thursday Apr 26, 2018
In Season 2 Episode #16, Dr. Bubbs interviews world expert Professor Stuart Phillips, PhD to talk about his contribution to the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) recent research and consensus statement on the use of supplements in sport. In this episode, Stu discusses athlete rationale and motives for using supplements, caffeine dosing strategies for endurance based exercise versus repeated sprints, the application of dietary nitrates and what exercise duration benefits most, as well as evidence-based immune support supplements.
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PEAK: The New Science of Athletic Performance That Is Revolutionizing Sport (#1 BEST SELLER)
PEAK40: The New Science of Midlife Health for a Leaner, Stronger Body and Sharper Mind
PERFORMANCE NUTRITION PODCAST (PNP):
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-jYKOZ4ZzlAJfVexEp0NtQ
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Thursday Apr 19, 2018
Thursday Apr 19, 2018
In Season 2 Episode #15, Dr. Bubbs sits down with strength coach and head of sport science at The University of Notre-Dame Jordan Webb. In this episode, Jordan shares his experiences working in professional sport in the NBA, NFL, MLS as well as his current role with men’s soccer and women’s rowing. Jordan talks pros and cons of athlete monitoring, integrating technology and analytics into a system, and the fundamental role of effective communication to achieve athlete buy-in and program success.
PERFORMANCE NUTRITION PODCAST (PNP):
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BOOKS:
PEAK: The New Science of Athletic Performance That Is Revolutionizing Sport (#1 BEST SELLER)
PEAK40: The New Science of Midlife Health for a Leaner, Stronger Body and Sharper Mind

Thursday Apr 12, 2018
Thursday Apr 12, 2018
In Season 2 Episode #14, Dr. Bubbs interviews former Olympian and nutrition expert Kelly Anne Erdman, MS of the Canadian Sport Institute in Calgary to talk Nutrition and Athletic Performance. In this episode, Kelly Anne dives into the key role of energy balance and availability, factors that impact energy availability, the crucial role of carbohydrates in high-intensity exercise, glycogen’s direct and indirect role in regulating training adaptations, as well as daily carb requirements depending on your sport, acute fueling strategies, key micronutrients and much more.
PERFORMANCE NUTRITION PODCAST (PNP):
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BOOKS:
PEAK: The New Science of Athletic Performance That Is Revolutionizing Sport (#1 BEST SELLER)
PEAK40: The New Science of Midlife Health for a Leaner, Stronger Body and Sharper Mind