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Nutrition & Diet

34 articles · updated July 30, 2026

Nutrition & Diet

What the gut can and cannot absorb while an athlete is working

The limiting factor in fuelling long events is frequently not what an athlete eats but what their gut can process while blood is being diverted elsewhere.

Priya Patel··3 min read

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Sweat, thirst and why hydration guidance keeps being revised

Advice on drinking during sport has swung between extremes within a single generation. The underlying physiology has not changed, which suggests the problem was always in the generalisation.

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