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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.
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Friday Jan 23, 2026
Friday Jan 23, 2026
Dr Kristin Jonvik is a Norwegian researcher and dietitian who has undertaken research into aspects relating to low energy availability and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) in para athletes. She also co-authored the chapter Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport and disordered eating in the Routledge Handbook of Disability Sport Science, published early in 2026. Kristin talks to about what REDs is, how it impacts on athletes, what the process of assessing and diagnosing REDs is and how this can be complicated in para athletes due to interactions with their impairment.
For those interested in reading Dr Jonvik's research further, these are some relevant articles, together with those provided for episode 102:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35268044/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11061701/
https://www.jandonline.org/article/S2212-2672(24)00248-X/fulltext
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41442093/
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