So many people wonder about metabolism, especially with all the media-coverage about weight loss.  Renowned metabolism researcher, Dr. Nicolaas Deutz, the Director of Texas A&M's Center for Translational Research in Aging and Longevity, joins us in the podcast today to talk about nutrition, metabolism, cancer, and exercise!  Dr. Deutz has published over 250 scientific articles and is currently well-funded by the National Institutes of Health to do research in these areas.  This is a great co...

We are pleased to have Dr. George Cunningham from here at Texas A&M join us in the podcast to discuss the issues surrounding sports and sexual identity.  One of the lightning rods in modern society is anything to do with sexual identity.  The world of Sports and sports medicine is not exempt from discussion, conversation, and research into the role that sexual identity plays in Sports.

You've been waiting for it and here it is:  the 100th Podcast from the Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance!  We do all things 100 today:  We talk to Mr. Mike Dillingham - Aggie Class '35 who is 100 and is the oldest living Aggie - about his time on the Texas A&M baseball team from 1931-1935.  We welcome back to the podcast one of the world's elite ultramarathoners Dr. Mike Sandlin who runs (and wins) 100-mile foot-races for fun! (really).

Sometimes the perspective of someone from outside the field talk to us about Sports Medicine and what they see happening.  Comedian Kevin Hughes - an avid reader and health enthusiast - serves just such a role for us; the outside observer that let's us know how our field actually applies to folks outside of sports medicine.  Kevin also is unique in that he's one of the few that we know that has listened to all of our podcasts and has actually commented on most of them.

Today we are joined by Dr. E. Lisako McKyer from Texas A&M.  Dr. McKyer is an expert in Health Promotion and Prevention and before you tune out, you should know that this is a kickin' podcast.  We cover a wide-range of issues including why Health Promotion is still relevant in our 'sickness medical model' and why Health Disparities research actually covers everyone.  We even talk about exercise and sports!  So give it a listen.

The scientific literature is very clear: regular physical activity may be the best medicine available.  In particular, there are several forms of cancer that regular exercise can prevent.  Breast cancer is one of the cancers that is prevented with exercise and we are pleased to have Dr. Weston Porter join us to chat about breast cancer and some of the new discoveries in the cancer field.  If you've wondered what work is actually being done to try to prevent and 'cure' cancer, you sho...

Today, we are pleased to be joined by Dr. Melinda Sheffield-Moore from the University of Texas Medical Branch.  Dr. Sheffield-Moore is a renowned scientist in muscle development, especially in the area of muscle wasting that occurs with cancer and aging.  Much of her work has been involved with testosterone supplementation and how that helps develop muscle, especially in chronic diseases.

Just a bit over two years ago, we launched our weekly podcast.  As we lead up to our 100th podcast episode in a few weeks, we thought it would be fun to bring back our first podcast guest, Dr. Jim Fluckey.  Dr. Fluckey is a well-established researcher in the area of building muscle (and protein synthesis) and is always a fun person to talk to.  So enjoy the podcast!  (and if you want to see how much better our audio sounds, just listen to the first podcast with Dr. Fluckey!)

October has been designated as Breast Cancer Awareness month and we are pleased to have Breast Cancer researcher Dr. Robin Fuchs-Young from Texas A&M with us in the podcast.  We talk about cancer research and importantly, breast cancer prevention during this podcast.  This podcast is a great conversation with one of the leading scientists that is leading the research examining breast cancer.  (Here's a link to Dr. Fuchs-Young biography.)

We are especially pleased to welcome Dr. Claude Bouchard from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center with us today in the podcast.  Dr. Bouchard is one of the most prominent Exercise Physiologists in the world with over 1000 scientific publications - and an h-factor over 90 (which is a measure of scientific impact - 90 is an amazing score!).  Dr. Bouchard has been forerunner in working to discover the genetic regulation of both obesity and exercise capacity.