Sports scientist Dr. Allen Lim details the direct correlation between gut health and athletic performance.

In this week’s episode, we talk with Dr. Allen Lim, sports scientist and founder of sports nutrition company Skratch Labs. Dr. Lim created Skratch Labs due to the demand for prevention of and solutions to GI issues with the many athletes with whom he had worked.

Tune in to hear about how optimizing an athlete’s gut health can positively impact an athlete’s performance. Learn a basic overview about the function of our gut, how we digest and absorb nutrients, how the GI tract responds to different circumstances, possible causes of GI distress, possible preventions and solutions for GI distress, ways to optimize the gut microbiome, and valuable advice on what we can do to improve our gut health and performance.

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