In The Flow

Christie Aschwanden is a science writer, journalist, and endurance athlete. In her book Good to Go she dives into the science behind recovery and looks critically at many of the popular recovery moda…

As COVID-19 sweeps its way across the planet, everything is changing in a way that is beyond anything we've ever experienced. Today I sit down with my good friend Vic Johnson to chat about how athlet…

Advanced sports dietitian Gemma Sampson beams in to the podcast from COVID-19 lockdown in Girona, Spain for a conversation on the common mistakes athletes make when it comes to fueling and nutrition,…

Fueling for an ultra endurance kind of event is daunting and there’s a lot of information out there. Some good, some not so good. So my goal today is to help sort through things through an evidence i…

Why does food matter? It can be easy to get so zoomed in on performance and health that we miss the bigger picture. Forget about things like ethics and the environment, and how our food choices impac…

In preparation for the 2020 Dirty Kanza 200 mile bike race in 3 months, I'm introducing a new series documenting the training and nutrition demands from an evidence-based translation of science into …

I sit down with performance nutritionist and climbing nutrition specialist, Tom Herbert for a conversation ranging from nutritional considerations for climbers, to addressing RED-S in the climbing co…

I reflect on 2019 and discuss what I'm looking forward to in 2020, and what to expect with the show in the new year. 

I sit down with my dear friend, Abby Mickey for a candid conversation on life as a professional cyclist, her struggles through a tumultuous career, nutrition, and what life now looks like after trans…

This week I bring you all a conversation with an amazing athlete and human, Sonya Looney. For the unfamiliar, Sonya is a professional mountain biker who has an impressive palmares in ultra-distance r…

As athletes, we often ride that very fine line between maintaining and over reaching in training and balancing all the other things we have going on in our lives. As such, it's useful to learn to lis…

I'm back with another questions and answers session hitting topics like raw vs. cooked food, athletic starvation/energy availability, rest days, intuitive eating, and more. Please consider leaving a …

As an homage to my previous podcast, Thought For Food, I want to repost some of my favorite episodes. Starting off with one of my proudest - What's the Deal with Fiber. My co-host Aaron Stuber and I …

This week on the pod, I share my 5 favorite foods and 5 favorite meals for athletes either new to plant-based eating or who want to simply add some new ideas into their routine. It can seem daunting …

In another installment of my series, The Research Report, I break down the recent set of papers published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that recommend us not to reduce our intake of red and proc…

I talk nutrition for mountain athletes with performance dietitian Rebecca Dent. We discuss fad diets, the unique needs of ultraendurance athletes, plant-based nutrition, and the connection between wh…

Social media has become a ubiquitous piece of our cultural fabric, but do the positives outweigh the negatives? I share my thoughts on why I quit social media, craving attention vs. paying attention,…