Maggie Awad, NP is the founder of Elevate Performance Medicine and a leading functional sports medicine nurse practitioner. Drawing on her work with elite professional athletes, Maggie breaks down how an optimized microbiome and personalized nutrition can fuel energy production, decrease inflammation, and support recovery. This holistic approach allows athletes to train harder, bounce back faster, and sustain peak performance without burnout or injury.

Whether you're a competitive athlete, weekend warrior, or high-performer chasing longevity in your sport or career, Maggie Awad shifts the paradigm from symptom management to true root-cause optimization.

Today on The Lab Report:

• 5:15 Meet Maggie Awad and learn what “Functional Sport Medicine” means
• 8:10 Why did Maggie choose this specialty
• 10:45 Common health issues among all athletes
• 12:30 Gut health and stool testing
• 17:20 Overtraining and the importance of sleep and recovery
• 18:50 Nutritional deficiencies in athletes – glycine tangent
• 20:50 Hormone optimization and supplementation
• 23:00 Maggie’s patient population and practice
• 25 :40 The Fireball  

Additional Resources:

Elevate Performance Medicine

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