6 Sports Nutrition Myths Debunked and Backed By Science Episode 27 with Erik Bustillo

Imperfect Progress with Anne Guzman

Don't make the mistake of believing the hype. It could cost you your bike race.

Scroll Instagram for 5 minutes and you'll be inundated with diet and sports nutrition advice. Unfortunately a lot of it is BS. The reason I do this podcast is to bring you quality information from credible sources, so you don't have to learn everything the hard way. This conversation does exactly this.

My podcast guest is Eric Bustillo. Registered Dietitian, personal trainer, CrossFit coach and RD to many special forces athletes. Today we shed light on some sports nutrition myths that just don't seem to want to die. Here's what they are:

1) Intermittent Fasting and weight loss.

2) Eating carbohydrates at night will make you gain weight

3) RED-S (relative energy deficiency in sport) only relates to females

4) Caffeine is dehydrating

5) Training fasted means you burn more fat and therefore lose more body fat

6) BCAAs are an important part of an athlete's sports nutrition regime

It's easy to understand why this gets confusing. There are lots of "sciency" sounding posts out there and Twitter gets way more air time than science! But rest assured, what you hear today is not pseudoscience.

When you're training hard and the difference between good and great is nutrition, you want to know that you're executing optimally. Otherwise you may be leaving power behind that you'll need to get over steep hills, make a break , win a finish sprint. or get through a CrossFit session.

Eric is a compassionate person and this comes across in our conversation. So let's jump inside and get the facts, while also hearing a healthy attitude we can all consider towards eating and exercise, besides the one that suggests we need to "burn off our dinner" or "earn a meal."

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Misinformation is everywhere. I'm here to give you legitimate information backed by science.