Nicole Lund: Sports and Performance Nutrition, Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Release Date: 06/19/2024
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info_outlineNicole Lund is a registered dietitian at NYU Langone’s Sports Performance Center. A certified health and well-being coach and certified personal trainer, as a former dancer her love of movement led her into a career as a step aerobics instructor and personal trainer. Through her work, she recognized a need for a discussion about food and its impact on everything from performance to health. She sees medical nutrition therapy patients via insurance and self-pay sports. She is a clinician with the Running Lab and works with athletes on the USA Nordic team.
Her expertise is in sports and performance nutrition while her clinical interests include chronic inflammation, weight loss, migraines, and menopause. She has a master’s degree in public health nutrition from Hunter College.
Part 1
The discussion covered the following topics: how and when she began to develop an interest in performance nutrition; types of patients she treats; the role that diet plays in improving problems involving overweight and obesity; and use of dietary supplements by patients.