The Toxic Micronutrient Runners Need: Drs Michael Zourdos and Sara Mahoney

In today’s episode, we’re going to drill down on one critical
micronutrient that is essential to humans in the right dose,
highly toxic in the wrong dose, and one that many runners are
chronically deficient in and that is iron.


To help explain the unique role of iron in runners, I invited Dr
Mike Zourdos and Dr Sara Mahoney on the Run to the Top. 
Mike and Sara have studied the role of iron in marathon runners
for both health and performance, and fun fact, Sara is Mike’s
endurance coach.


Mike is a Full Professor and the Associate Chair in the
Department of Exercise Science and Health Promotion at Florida
Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. Mike’s research lab, the
Muscle Physiology Laboratory, focuses on resistance and strength
training, but more recently, he has begun to come over to the
endurance side of sport with a little help from Sara.


Dr Sara Mahoney is the Chair of the Department of Exercise
Science and Associate Professor at Bellarmine University in
Louisville, KY.  Her research has been focused in the use of
nutraceuticals and the use of nutrition in athletic performance,
specifically endurance and ultra-endurance events.


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