MED 46 — Sports Nutrition
Quarter: Fall
Instructor(s): Clyde Wilson
Date(s): Sep 30—Nov 11
Class Recording Available: Yes
Class Meeting Day: Wednesdays
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Class Meeting Time: 6:30—9:00 pm (PT)
Tuition: $565
Refund Deadline: Oct 2
Unit(s): 1
Enrollment Limit: 80
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
Quarter: Fall
Day: Wednesdays
Duration: 7 weeks
Time: 6:30—9:00 pm (PT)
Date(s): Sep 30—Nov 11
Unit(s): 1
Tuition: $565
Refund Deadline: Oct 2
Instructor(s): Clyde Wilson
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Enrollment Limit: 80
Recording Available: Yes
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
Coordinating nutrition with exercise dramatically improves weight loss, health (including immune strength), and fitness. This course examines how nutrition for performance addresses delaying fatigue, driving adaptation, and speeding recovery. Delaying fatigue requires hydration and fuel supply, whereas speeding recovery demands supporting protein production and healing. Adaptation (the body’s ability to improve through changes in gene expression) is also highly influenced by nutrition. For example, protein and carbohydrate after exercise are critical to stimulating our DNA to initiate muscle healing, while unsaturated fats and antioxidants in recovery meals support fat burning and endurance.
This course reviews the science of sports nutrition and will guide you in applying this information to your sports nutrition program. The foundations of your program are separated into what you consume during and right after exercise (calories, fluids, electrolytes) and throughout the rest of your day (meals, snacks, hydration). By covering theory and application, the course will be equally relevant to those interested in science and improving exercise results.
No scientific background is required; however, this course is based on an examination and discussion of scientific findings relevant to the course topic, with homework focused on application.
CLYDE WILSON
Research Associate, Biochemistry, UC San Francisco
Clyde Wilson has taught movement and nutrition courses at Stanford for over 20 years, including kinesiology in the Department of Human Biology, nutrition and exercise theory in the Department of Athletics, food pharmacology in both the Stanford and UCSF medical schools, and metabolism in Stanford Medicine's Health and Human Performance program. He received a PhD in chemistry from Stanford and researches metabolism at UCSF. Textbooks for this course:
There are no required textbooks; however, some fee-based online readings may be assigned.