The role that nutrition plays in sports performance has intrigued me since I was a boy. Could ‘Wheaties” really make champions? Did a pre-game banana prevent muscle cramps? Were protein powders needed for muscle growth? Later in life, I became a registered dietitian, gained experience as a university sports nutritionist, and earned advanced degrees in nutrition and exercise physiology. On the very good advice of a trusted mentor, I applied and was accepted for a post-doctoral research position at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, where I became a commissioned Army Officer (2000-2005), a research physiologist in the Thermal and Mountain Medicine Division (2000-2018), a heat and hydration subject matter expert for the Department of Defense (2006-2019), and Deputy Chief of the Biophysics and Biomedical Modeling Division (2018-2019). Sports community and industry touchpoints, a restless curiosity, and an entrepreneurial spirit led me to leave federal service and create my own business – Sports Science Synergy, LLC.
Through SSS, I combine 20 years of diverse research and publishing experience and apply my knowledge of exercise, nutrition, and environmental physiology on a freelance basis. To help individuals and companies achieve their goals, I provide advice, guidance, and analysis of research, products, projects, and programs. I also offer unique and ready to integrate hydration management sports tech solutions and business partnership opportunities within sports beverage, apparel, wearables, fitness app, and closely related industries.
Current and Former Clients of Sports Science Synergy, LLC
- Bitome
- Boston Athletic Association
- The Coca-Cola Company
- Entrinsic Health Solutions
- Flow Bio
- Gatorade Sports Science Institute
- Nike
Services Offered
- Serve as SME on advisory boards
- Scientific due diligence for consumer product markets
- Research study design and data analysis strategies and advice
- Review and editing of draft manuscripts
- White paper writing
- Liaison for collaborative research partners
- Preparation and/or presentation of scientific content at professional meetings
- Consumer product ideation and development
- Creative thermal modeling solutions
Business Partnership and Licensing Opportunities
- Road Race Water Planner©
- Patented H2Q™ algorithm
- De novo creation of custom sweat prediction algorithms and water planning for sports
Consulting Subject Matter Expertise
Broad Topic Area: Nutritional Physiology
Narrow Topic Areas:
Hydration Assessment
Details: Fundamental principles of measurement and evaluation; nuanced understanding of techniques; comparison of methods (laboratory and field) (e.g., biomarkers, devices, etc.)
Water and Salt
Details: Fundamental principles of body water and salt balance; expert in human water and salt needs
Sports Drinks and Oral Rehydration Solutions
Details: Fundamental principles; nuanced insights (e.g., types of sugars, cations, anions, buffers, flavors, guidelines)
Amino Acids
Details: Fundamental principles; requirements; nuanced nutritional applications
Nutrition and Disease
Details: Fundamental principles around the role of nutrition in both the genesis and treatment of disease; nuanced knowledge of gastrointestinal disorders (e.g., infectious diarrhea, EED, IBD, IBS)
Nutrition and Health
Details: Fundamental principles behind nutrient classifications and needs for health and wellness
Metabolism
Details: Fundamental principles; techniques; measurement and evaluation (e.g., indirect calorimetry, direct calorimetry, doubly labeled water)
Broad Topic Area: Exercise Physiology
Narrow Topic Areas:
Sports Nutrition
Details: Bespoke nutrient requirements of exercise; body fluid balance (water and electrolytes); strategies around exercise fluid intake; composition of sports beverages
Bioenergetics of Exercise
Details: Measurement and evaluation; applications to wearable fitness sensors; physiological modeling; comparison of methods
Sports Wearables and Similar Tech
Details: Fundamental principles of measuring physiological responses with sensors to inform about stress, monitor strain, or predict illness (e.g., fever)
Sports Performance
Details: Measurement and evaluation; sex differences; modeling
Exercise Testing and Prescription
Details: Fundamental principles of training for endurance, strength, and power in both healthy and special populations
Adaptations to Exercise
Details: Fundamental principles of systems physiology adaptations to exercise stress (cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal, endocrine, etc.)
Exercise and Chronic Disease Risk
Details: Exercise is medicine; relationship between exercise and chronic disease risk
Broad Topic Area: Environmental Physiology
Narrow Topic Areas:
Environmental Monitoring
Details: Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Index; fundamentals of measurement. equipment, and data evaluation; nuanced understanding of components; device comparisons; remote monitoring and prediction modeling
Thermoregulation
Details: Fundamental principles of temperature regulation in humans; sex differences (body morphology, hormones); composition of sweat; heat and cold illnesses
Biophysics of Heat Balance
Details: Fundamental biophysical modeling of human heat balance and fluid balance
Apparel
Details: Impact of sports apparel, military, and occupational protective clothing on human comfort, movement economy, temperature regulation, and environmental illness risk; design of apparel (e.g., textiles) impact on thermal and evaporative resistance; physiological modeling of clothing effects
Physiological Prediction Modeling
Details: Integration of narrow topics (above) to predict the thermal and/or hydration state of individuals as applied in sports, clinical, and occupational medicine scenarios
Physiological Measurement of Thermal and Hydration State
Details: Knowledge and practice of measuring body core temperature, skin temperature, whole body sweat loss, evaporative sweating, sweat electrolytes, blood and urine; nuanced understanding of methods (e.g., thermistors, thermocouples, telemetry, thermal imaging, etc.)
Contact Information
Samuel N. Cheuvront, PhD, RD, FACSM
Founder & Principal
Sports Science Synergy, LLC
info@sportssciencesynergy.com
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