For more information about this week’s Human Performance Minute, check out the links listed below.  Be sure to check out future weekly Huffines Institute Human Performance Minute broadcasts at TexAgs SportsRadio (The Zone 1150 AM) every Wednesday morning at 10:45am. If you missed it you can listen to it here!

Today we have a special guest from the world of Law, our very own Dr. Natasha Brison from our Division of Sports Management. Dr. Brison discusses her work with athletic endorsements, advertisement, and enforcement from the FTC.  If you've seen ads, then this is a conversation for you!

We're Back for a summer full of podcasts (and new apps!).  Kicking of the summer is a great chat with Dr. Kelly Wilson, an Associate Professor in the Division of Health in Texas A&M's Department of Health and Kinesiology.  Dr. Wilson was recently named the Health Educator of the Year and discusses her work with sexuality education and how this impacts kids and health.  This is a hugely timely discussion!

Today marks our final podcast of 2016. What a year it's been! Join us today for a conversation with another Huffines Institute alum, Dr. Emily Schmitt. Dr. Schmitt's work on health, exercise, and the environment is sure to close the year out well. A very interesting subject!

This week's podcast features one of our own - Huffines Institute Affiliate Dr. Heather Vellers joins us for a discussion on groundbreaking research taking place right now on mitochondria and how their genome affects our health! Really cool stuff!

This year's Huffines Discussion went off without a hitch - except for a last minute speaker change that saw former Texas A&M Quarterback Jerrod Johnson take the place of Dat Nguyen, who unfortunately had an alternate commitment come up!

We're thrilled to have Dr. Amanda Boyce from the National Institutes of Health join us on the Podcast today! Amanda brings a wealth of experience in scientific review, and discusses the specifics behind how our tax dollars get spent on research in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the nation's medical research agency -whose goal is "making important discoveries that improve health and save lives. A really informative talk!

Playing the piano, swinging a golf club, typing words on a computer - what do all these activities have in common? Physiologically, each requires the careful coordination of different movements by both limbs to complete the task. This is bimanual coordination, and we have Dr. Deanna Kennedy in the studio to talk about it! Join us for a talk on the very basics of human performance, and how completion of even the smallest tasks is an impressive physiological feat!

Most believe that sport, particularly organized sport, is a generally good and positive activity that leads to positive outcomes - but why? How can we maximize the positive outcomes that sport has with the greatest regularity? Join us with Dr. Marlene Dixon, as we take on these questions and more in this week's podcast

Healthy lifestyle choices are an important part of every athlete's routine, particularly when it has to do with the fuel they give their body. Join us for an interesting discussion on nutrition in athletics, with Dr. Susan Kleiner, a highly decorated nutritionist, scientist and author. Dr. Kleiner is the owner of High Performance Nutrition, LLC, a consulting firm in Mercer Island, Washington, and has authored eight books on nutrition and dieting. We're thrilled to have her on the podcast...