🎧 Iron Deficiency in Athletes & Endurance Distance Runners

Episode: "Iron Deficiency in Athletes"   Welcome to  the #RunPainFree Podcast.   In this episode, Jessica Leggio, COACH preludes her Marathon Training Summit  interview presentation with Dr. Elissa Rosen on The importance of Iron for athletes .   So if you want to know What Iron is, the role of it plays biologically, and its importance to endurance athletes, tune in now!   In this episode, you'll discover: Episode Title: "Iron Deficiency In Athletes" * What is Iron. * Why we need it as humans. * Plants VS Animal iron - and do they equate * Low Iron, Anemia, Iron Deficient explained * Effects of Iron deficiency   About Dr. Elissa Rosen Dr. Elissa Rosen is an expert in Iron Deficiency in Long Distance Runners whose accomplishments include: * *Elissa Rosen, MD, CEDS-S is a board certified Internal Medicine * *Assistant Medical Director of the ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders at Denver Health, a nationwide referral center * That provides medical stabilization for those with severe, life-threatening medical * Complications due to eating disorders. * *Dr. Rosen is one of a handful of internal medicine physicians in the country * With the designation of Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Supervisor (CEDS-S) given by * The International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP). As an avid outdoors * Enthusiast and runner herself, she has enjoyed working with athletes of all levels who may * Be struggling with disordered eating, eating disorders, or relative energy deficiency in * Sports (RED-S). * *Runner   More Information Learn more about how you can improve your results with Iron Deficiency in Long Distance Runners with www.marathontrainingsummit.com #RunPainFree Nutritional Program   Thanks for Tuning In! Thanks so much for being with us this week. Have some feedback you'd like to share? Please leave a note in the comments section below!   If you enjoyed this episode on The importance of Iron for Athletes, please share it with your friends by using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post. Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates for our "#RunPainFree Podcast!"   And, finally, please take a minute to leave us an honest review and rating on iTunes. They really help us out when it comes to the ranking of the show and I make it a point to read every single one of the reviews we get.   Please leave a review right now   Thanks for listening!