Sports Medicine and Nutrition: The Powerful Connection for Optimal Performance and Health with Peter Bruckner

In this episode Emma chats to Dr Peter Brukner, who is a specialist sports and exercise physician. they talk about "ground up" change and Peter shares his health story.

Peter is the co-founder of the public health campaign SugarByHalf and is committed to the challenge of improving the nation’s health with improved diet and increased physical activity.

His best selling book "A Fat Lot of Good" was published in 2018. Peter is also the Founder and Chair of Defeat Diabetes, an app- and web-based program, aimed at improving diabetes control through diet. His latest book The Diabetes Plan was published in March 2023.

He's the founding partner of Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne and Professor of Sports Medicine at LaTrobe University, and a founding Executive Member of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians. Peter served two terms as President and played a key role in establishing sports medicine as a medical specialty in Australia. He is the co-author of the widely used text book Clinical Sports Medicine and has been team physician for professional football clubs as well as
national athletics, swimming, soccer and men’s hockey teams including Olympic and Commonwealth Games. Peter was the Socceroos Team Doctor at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Head of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at Liverpool Football Club, and has served as Australian cricket team doctor from 2012-17.

Peter was also consultant to the Melbourne Football Club during their premiership year in 2021. In 2022 Peter was awarded a Doctor of Science honoris causa by La Trobe University and delivered the inaugural Peter Brukner Distinguished Lecture.

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