Biomarkers and How to Use Them to Optimize Training and Nutrition

Learning Objectives: 

1. Understand how to appropriately implement laboratory-based biomarker techniques to enhance performance, nutrition, and overall athlete health, with a unique focus on tactical populations and female athletes.
2. Recognize the influence of training demands as well as other stressors that may drive physiological changes in physically active individuals and athletes.
3. Effectively evaluate issues related to athletes and operators that may influence physiological responses and identify ways to promote adequate recovery and overall health, including supplement use, oral contraceptive use, training loads, hormonal and hematological changes, and nutrition to improve recovery.