Boost Fitness Performance: Lessons From an Elite Military Dietician | Nick Barringer PhD

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (0:02)
Welcome to the Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, where I believe a healthy world is based on transparent conversations.
I'm so excited to bring you this episode of the Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show. I sit down with Nick Barringer. He is the very first at what he has done. He previously served as an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point and as a Regimental Nutritionist, as a member of the Ranger Athlete Warrior Program at the 75th Ranger Regiment.
Nick is an Army Ranger and an Army Ranger Dietitian. He is an expert on nutrition performance for the tactical athlete. Nick Barringer currently serves as the Program Director for the Army-Baylor University's Master's Program in Nutrition. He has a Doctorate Degree in Kinesiology from Texas A&M. He's received his undergraduate degree in Dietetics from the University of Georgia.
He previously worked at the United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine and he has researched in depth warfighter nutritional requirements in various environments, including those deployed special operators. Nick has a very unique perspective as a researcher, as a teacher, and as someone who has been deployed in all of it, as well as having been deployed in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He understands both academic and applied demands of the tactical athlete. If you are not a tactical athlete, there is still so much for you to learn from this episode because we are all trying to be the best version of ourselves. Here is what you can take away from this episode. Number one, what everyone should do for performance, whether you are tactical or not. Number two, the best ways to design your macros, whether you are trying to lose weight, optimize performance, you name it. And number three, what supplements everybody should take. Please take a moment to subscribe, rate, comment, share it with a friend. Let's get the word out there. Let's do right, let's do good science. Here we go. A very special thank you to Element for sponsoring this episode of the show.
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