Para Sports Nutrition

About Para Sports Nutrition

Para athletes, or athletes with a disability, require sports nutrition recommendations to be adapted to their specific sport, impairment, practical and/or medical needs. Liz Broad, Sports Dietitian, helps answer athletes and sports nutritionists questions and find ways to optimise your sporting performance through interviews with researchers, sports nutrition practitioners, coaches, athletes and other sports performance personnel.

Publisher

Liz Broad

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Oct 2021

Latest episode

27 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

111 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Jul 2026

   E111 Susannah Scaroni wheelchair racer update

   Susannah Scaroni is a wheelchair racer who has won nearly every wheelchair marathon race in 2025. We first spoke to Susannah in 2021 while she was recovering from a training accident. We catch up to discuss everything she's been doing in the past 5 years including her career as a dietitian, her ongoing success in wheelchair racing, and the impending birth of her first child.

2. 

   5 Jul 2026

   E110 Nutrition research for athletes with spinal cord injury with Ann Hertig-Godeschalk

   Dr Anneke (Ann) Hertig-Godeschalk is a Research Associate at the Swiss Paraplegic Centre in Notwil. Ann has been involved in a number of research projects in individuals with a spinal cord injury (SCI), including athletes. We discuss a few of these projects to find out what she knows, including the topics of Urinary Tract Infections, Vitamin D and Pre- and Probiotics.

3. 

   21 Apr 2026

   E109 Inflammation and health with Gary Farkas, Sven Hoekstra and Christof Leicht

   Dr Gary Farkas, Dr Sven Hoekstra and Dr Christof Leicht are the co-authors of a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Disability Sports Science entitled "Inflammatory responses to exercise and related health interventions". Gary, Sven and Christof talk to us about what inflammation is, the impact inflammation has on health and disease, and how exercise and other factors such as heat, cold and diet help to mitigate inflammation and thereby improve health and disease risk.

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

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Quality

62

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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