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In this episode, I talk to Dr. Md Rehan who is a cardio thoracic surgeon, an international level rower and a performance coach who started a nutrition brand with the goal of providing clean and healthy performance enhancing supplements for athletes. Getting to sit down with such a versatile person, I did all I could to get as much value out of the conversation as possible. I'm going to break the conversation into two parts. One where we talk about the nutrition side of things and one where we talked about all things related to heart health and the alarming trend of athlete cardiac incidents. In this first episode, we talked about the importance of nutrition for general wellbeing and performance. We talked about why, what, when and how much of protein is needed for performance. In the next episode I will share all the great insights he had on the cardiac health and what we all can do for a healthy heart. For now, let us get into my conversation with Dr Rehan about Nutrition for athletic performance and health.

0:00:00  Intro

0:05:20  His rowing career and performance coaching

0:10:35  Nutrition meant Horlicks or protenix with milk back in the day

0:13:00  High performance coaching

0:17:30  How he got into nutrition, ICMR study revealing problems wih current products

0:23:40  What certifications are needed for nutrition products

0:24:55  Venky's hypersensitivity to protein and a case for biriyani

0:27:35  Nitrates and how they help

0:29:50  What When and how much of protein

0:41:30  Closing

About the Podcast

The working athlete podcast is a podcast with and for working athletes from all walks of life and various sports. The goal is to provide inspiration, training tips, mental hacks, time management and life-style advice through conversations with some of the best in sport, from athletes to coaches. If you think you can benefit from this, please consider subscribing so that you don't miss the weekly episodes in future.

Who is a working athlete? Someone working fulltime/part-time, entrepreneur or anyone who has to work to make ends meet and doesn't let being busy to stop him/her from pursuing an active lifestyle is a working athlete. I consider stay at home moms/dads who pursue a sport, as working athletes because homemaking is a full-time job.

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