Your Guide to Performance Nutrition and Blocking Out the Noise with Kelsey Bailey

For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind Running

Most endurance athletes are making the same critical fueling mistake. Let’s learn how to avoid it so you can perform the best.

Kelsey Bailey is the lead Performance Dietitian for Eternal, a company providing high performance, personalized healthcare to athletes. She spent 8 years with Special Operations and is also a consulting Performance Dietitian within the tactical space of military, fire, and police. Her areas of specialty include understanding the unique demands of today’s world on the body to keep people healthy, thriving and performing throughout their life. She also has a vested interest in endurance sport, allostatic load, traumatic brain injury, fertility, environmental exposures, and gastrointestinal health. She lives in Denver with her husband and three rambunctious little boys.

Jon chats with Kelsey about:

• Kelsey's Military Background and Roles as a Dietitian and Mother

• Transition to Working with Pro Sports (Baseball/Hockey)

• Current Focus on Women's Health and Endurance Athletics

• Nutrition Fundamentals That Shape Your Health

• Navigating Social Media Misinformation

• How Eternal’s Services Can Help Guide You on Your Health Journey

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