Sport Nutrition

About Asker JeukendrupMichael Gleeson

Asker Jeukendrup PhD is a visiting professor at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom the director of the Mysportscience performance consulting firm and cofounder and co-CEO of CORE Nutrition Planning and of Neversecond. After obtaining his degrees at Maastricht University in the Netherlands he spent a year at the University of Texas at Austin before accepting a position at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. At the University of Birmingham he served for 12 years as the director of the Human Performance Laboratory heading up the exercise metabolism research group. His research focused on the metabolic responses to exercise the regulation of carbohydrate and fat metabolism during exercise adaptations to training and the influence of nutrition on metabolism and exercise nutrition and his work greatly influenced the nutrition guidelines we have today for athletes. He is considered a leading expert in the areas of sport nutrition training and overtraining and recovery. Jeukendrup received several awards for his achievements including the Danone Chair at the University of Brussels in 2005. Between 2011 and 2014 he was the global senior director of the Gatorade Sports Science Institute. He is a registered sport and exercise nutritionist having worked with many elite athletes and clubs including Chelsea Football Club FC Barcelona FC Red Bull Salzburg UK Athletics the British Olympic Association and several Olympic and world champions. He is currently nutrition performance manager for the Dutch Olympic Committee and head of performance nutrition for Visma Lease a Bike (used to be Jumbo-Visma) who wrote cycling history by winning all three Grand Tours in one year. He also works at the Red Bull Athlete Performance Center with sports that vary from skateboarding F1 America's Cup sailing and soccer. Jeukendrup is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the European College of Sport Science. In his leisure time he enjoys running cycling and competing in triathlons. To date he has completed 21 Ironman races including 6 Ironman Hawaii competitions.Michael Gleeson PhD is a professor emeritus of exercise biochemistry in the School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University in Leicestershire United Kingdom. Gleeson is considered a world authority on exercise biochemistry immunology and nutrition and he has worked with numerous world-class athletes and professional football (soccer) clubs. He has taught sport nutrition at the university level. He has written several books 30 book chapters and over 250 scientific articles in scientific and medical journals and he has coauthored textbooks on exercise metabolism exercise immunology and sport nutrition. Gleeson has been both president and vice president of the International Society of Exercise and Immunology. He is a fellow of the European College of Sport Science and the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences. He is also a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and the Physiological Society. Following his retirement in 2016 he turned his attention to how ordinary people can achieve optimal health and live healthier for longer. In 2020 he released a series of healthy lifestyle guidebooks about the benefits of being active and eating and sleeping well advice about natural means to reverse type 2 diabetes without medication and how to use multiple diets for effective and safe weight loss. Based on his extensive experience and love of football and following his work as a coauthor of the UEFA expert group statement on nutrition in elite football he authored a 2022 book on nutrition for top performance in football. He enjoys playing tennis hill walking and watching football and films.