Expert Session: Sodium & Sweat with Alan McCubbin

We welcome a very special guest on the Waffle this week, Advanced Sports Dietitian Alan McCubbin! Alan is an expert in all things sweat and sodium, recently completing his PhD in this very topic! So we have borrowed his knowledge to find out what sodium is, if/when it is important in sport, how to replace sodium and his thoughts around sweat testing. We also touch on timing, whether it affects cramps and much much more! Sodium and hydration can be really tricky topics with a lot of detail. It’s often hard to understand the complicated science that exists behind it all and there’s still a lot that Sports Science doesn’t quite know. To get personalised advice from one of our Compeat Nutrition performance staff, head over to our FREE NUTRITION ASSESSMENT!! https://compeatnutrition.typeform.com/to/K8iY8Q 📚 Important studies 📚 This is the Maurten Study which compared a hydrogel carbohydrate-electrolyte solution to a normal carbohydrate-electrolyte solution:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31629348 & this is the 3-day loading findings that Alan publish:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31377851 Are there other interesting topics you want us to touch on?  We run Facebook and Instagram live Q&As every Thursday night. If you haven't caught one of those yet, please jump on! We cover a different topic every time and we love to get your questions, feedback and ideas on topics each week.   If you have any further questions or simply want to keep up to date with all the cool stuff we have going on, make sure to check out our socials:  Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/compeat_nutrition/    Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/compeatnutritionaus/