Performance Nutrition: Lessons From Special Ops + Elite Athletes for Everyday People | Jessica Spendlove

Elite athletes and Special Forces do not eat like you do....and the reason you fade in the afternoon is usually something you did that morning.

Jessica Spendlove will tell you exactly what. She will also tell you what to eat when you have 4 minutes and no time to think, whether the supplements you bought are doing anything at all, and why she rarely recommends that a woman fast.

Jessica is a performance dietitian with more than 15 years behind her, a decade of it in elite sport across 7 professional teams, Olympic medallists, world champions and premiership-winning sides, plus 7 years with Special Forces Command.

Jessica has heard every version of "I'm already doing everything right" and she has never met anybody whose nutrition she could not improve. And she is happy to be challenged on that!

The reason it lands is that she got it wrong herself. Jessica spent years feeding elite athletes while running on adrenaline, cortisol and caffeine, and it took her own data to stop her arguing with herself.

If you have been telling yourself you will sort your nutrition out when things calm down, start here.

00:00 The day we took nutrition off the table

03:44 Seven professional teams at once, running on adrenaline, cortisol and caffeine

06:12 The reply-all email that got her roasted at the Christmas party

11:46 The keynote she nearly pulled out of, and the data that made the call

17:19 The three hour morning window where it all comes apart

20:14 The domino habit has to survive your worst day