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Hydration

Hydration boasts 5 lectures from leading experts in sports nutrition. This bundle answers the questions: What does dehydration mean for athletic performance? How can we measure dehydration and sweat loss? How can we use nutrition to improve hydration status? And more!

This bundle is for anyone looking to improve their understanding of the effect of dehydration on athletic performance, and the role sports nutrition plays in improving hydration status. 
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Hydration

First, Asker provides a detailed overview of the topic with 'Hydration'. Next, Dr. Lewis James discusses dehydration and athletic performance. Followed by Dr. Lindsay Baker's lecture on techniques to measure sweat. Finally, Bareket Falk and Asker separately discuss nutrition strategies to improve hydration status and enhance athletic performance in different athlete populations. 

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Professor Asker Jeukendrup

Asker is one of the world’s leading sports nutritionists and exercise physiologist who spent most of his career as a professor at the University of Birmingham (UK) as Head of The Human Performance Laboratory. Currently he is a (visiting) professor at Loughborough University. He has authored 9 books and over 250 research papers and book chapters. During his career Asker has worked at the forefront of research as well as directly with athletes, including Olympic and World champions, Tour de France cyclists and Champions league football teams.

After many years of working at Universities, Asker accepted a position as the Global Senior Director of the Gatorade Sports Science Institute. At present he is the director of his own performance consulting business “Mysportscience”, and worked or works with a number of football clubs (including FC Barcelona, Chelsea, Red Bull Leipzig, Red Bull Salzbuyrg and PSV eindhove). He is head of performance nutrition of the Jumbo Visma pro cycling team and the Red Bull Athlete Performance Center, and Performance Manager of Nutrition for the Dutch Olympic team.
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Dr. Lewis James

Lewis obtained a BSc in Food Science with Nutrition from the University of Reading, followed by an MSc in Sport and Exercise Nutrition from Loughborough University. He stayed at Loughborough to complete a PhD focussing on human water balance. Lewis became a Lecturer in Nutrition in 2012 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2016. Lewis is currently Physiology and Nutrition Group Lead, Deputy Lead for the Sports Performance Research Theme, and also leads modules on the School’s undergraduate (Sport Nutrition) and postgraduate (Applied Nutrition) programmes. He is a keen sportsman, with a particular interested in cycling and combat sports, particularly mixed martial arts and boxing.
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Dr. Lindsay Baker

Lindsay is an R&D Principal Scientist at the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI). Since joining GSSI in 2007, Lindsay's primary role has been designing and conducting sports nutrition and hydration studies for the GSSI research program. She is internationally recognised as an expert in fluid and electrolyte balance.

Lindsay came to GSSI from The Pennsylvania State University where she earned a doctorate in Kinesiology. While at Penn State, she conducted research at Noll Laboratory under the mentorship of Dr. W. Larry Kenney and tested the effects of fluid/electrolyte imbalances on physiology and physical/cognitive performance in various populations, including basketball players, endurance runners, and older active adults. Lindsay was a basketball player herself and ran for the track and cross-country teams at Pitt-Johnstown. Now, in her spare time, Lindsay enjoys tennis, kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, and cross-country skiing.

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Professor Bareket Falk

Bareket Falk is a pediatric exercise physiologist, with a wide interest in children’s responses to exercise and the physiological effects that physical training may have on children. Children’s thermoregulation and response to exercise in the heat is one of her long-time research interests. Her current work also focuses on the effect of growth, maturation and physical activity on muscle function and on bone development.

Bareket is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Brock University, Canada. She is the outgoing Editor-in-Chief of the journal Pediatric Exercise Science. Bareket is the mother of 3 boys, all of whom have inspired her research.

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