Case Study: Listening To Rasa Troup

Listening to Rasa Troup was a wonderful experience. I enjoyed how she detailed her vast experiences to solidify her authority in talking about sports nutrition. I thought it was interesting that she ran at the University of Minnesota, became there Women’s Cross Country and Track & Field’s dietician. Then in 2008 went to Beijing in the Women’s steeplechase for Lithuania. Now she is currently the one of the Viking’s dieticians and is a full time dietician at Viverant. According to Troup nutrition advice has been able to expand to more people because under the Affordable Care Act it is now considered preventative care. Adequate nutrition can prevent injuries such as muscle/ tendon injuries, stress fractures or injuries caused from physical or mental fatigue thus is preventative care. Sports nutrition specifically revolves around what she called the 5 pillars. These included 1) energy intake 2) mix of fuel, 3) meal timing 4) hydration 5) Case studies.
Instead it is better to look at stress fractures, amenohria in girls, low testosterone and estrogen hormones. Personally I really liked the continuum spectrum of the female athlete triad because I don’t agree that in order to have the triad you have to have an eating disorder. In addition, there are many males that express symptoms that make them prone to injury; therefore hearing about the Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports (RED-S) was enlightening. Besides including both genders I liked that it talked about the overall impact immune system, cognitive thinking etc. on under nutrition. As someone who wants to be a doctor for adolescents understanding this (RED-S) and knowing how to work with psychologists, nutritionists will be essential to helping all my patients reach there full