Dr. Michael Ormsbee: Food Timing, Nutrition & Supplements for Fat Loss, Muscle Growth & Recovery

1. Dr. Andy Galpin

   The science and practice of enhancing human performance for sport, play, and life.

2. Welcome to Perform.

3. I'm Dr. Andy Galpin. I'm a professor and scientist and the executive director of the Human Performance Center at Parker University. Today, I'm gonna be talking with my longtime friend, Dr. Mike Ormsbee. Mike is a professor at Florida State University. He is the director of the Institute of Sports Science and Medicine. Mike is a world-renowned expert in all things exercise physiology, supplementation, sports nutrition, and a whole host of other important and interesting topics that we'll get into in today's conversation. Mike has done a tremendous amount of work over the last 15 years, specifically in the area of pre-sleep nutrition, and I could promise you we're gonna get into some things that are Mike's lifelong passion and career that are counterintuitive to what most people think about what to eat and what not to eat prior to sleep. In fact, I'll give you a little bit of a spoiler alert. He has some pretty compelling evidence over multiple studies that eating specific items in specific amounts prior to sleep is advantageous for not only sleep and recovery, but multiple other things as well. The conversation was wide-ranging, but we'll cover many other things like a handful of supplements that people have not heard of that have interesting implications for a wide variety of performance and health-related outcomes. And so it was a fascinating conversation. I learned a lot from it. I've known Mike for a long time. I've known his work for a long time, but there was a lot that I did not know about the work he's done and will be doing in the future. So here we go with Dr. Mike Ormsbee. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. Dr. Mike Ormsbee, thank you so much for coming out. I know it was a long trip this morning, and I have a bunch of stuff I'm excited to talk to you about, but first, uh, thank you so much for coming out.

4. Dr. Michael Ormsbee

   You're welcome. Welcome. I've, uh, not been able to come over here and do some podcasting and, uh, hang out on this side of the country for a while, so, um, for me, it's a pleasure. I appreciate the offer.

5. Dr. Andy Galpin

   I love your research. Uh, I love a lot of the stuff that you've gotten into, so I-- when we decided to officially have guests for Perform, I was like, "Mike, Mike has gotta be on the list," and stoked to have you out here.

6. Dr. Michael Ormsbee

   Appreciate it. I can't wait to get into some of this stuff because, uh, I, I love it. It's, it's what I do day in and day out, and, um, t- uh, speaking to a bigger audience is a pleasure.

7. Dr. Andy Galpin

   Fantastic, man. We're gonna go to a lot of areas, but where I wanna start is actually with ultra-endurance stuff.

8. Dr. Michael Ormsbee

   Sure.

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