A new BMJ Open paper highlights an important problem: fluent answers are not always accurate answers. People are turning to chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini to get health advice, athletes and practitioners use it to get nutrition advice or updates… or performance advice. But how reliable are these chatbots when the topic is health, nutrition or performance? I was fortunate to be part of a group of established researchers that aimed to address exactly that question. In a stud

Below are the 5 most popular blogs on mysportscience in 2024! Click the title to read... 1. HMB: a magic supplement? In top spot this year is an older, but always popular blog on HMB. In this blog, Asker discusses the potential ergogenic effect of the supplement β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMB); a supplement carrying very little evidence to support its popularity. The blog synthesises evidence from a review by Jakubowski et al. (2020) to highlight the effect of HMB (or lack

The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris have been officially opened. More then ever nutrition is an important topic for athletes as awareness...

The fourth edition of the textbook Sport Nutrition by Professor Michael Gleeson and myself was published on 5th June 2024. For the last 2 years we have been working closely with the publishers Human Kinetics to get this 700-page book published. A lot has happened in the world of sports nutrition since the last edition in 2018 and the new textbook reflects this! Here we will briefly discuss what is new in this textbook and why it should be adopted for college, university and