My PhD thesis is now available as a free download!
I was extremely fortunate to do my PhD research at Luc van Loon’s lab in Maastricht, the Netherlands. It’s one of the biggest labs in human muscle metabolism, with a lot of very experienced researchers and world-class equipment.
This means it was an amazing training ground for me to develop my research skills and exercise/nutrition knowledge. And I felt like a kid in the candy store. But at the same time, it was also quite a bit of pressure. Because my PhD would be mainly limited by my “talent’ and “work ethic”.
So I wanted to get as much out of it as I possibly could.
And now that it’s finished, I’m very proud of the result.
Some of the highlights of my PhD:
- Published multiple high impact sports nutrition studies
- Managing projects that required exceptional amounts of resources
- Use advanced and unique research methods
- Won several prestigious awards
- Collaborated with some of the biggest names in the field
And perhaps most important of all: I have the feeling I have been able to develop my skill set to the elite level and that this will enable a lot more cool research in the future (I’ll continue to work at this lab).
A PhD thesis mainly consists out of research papers, so it may not be a practical read for everyone. If you have relatively little experience with reading research papers and or sports nutrition, the introduction is a good starting point to get basics of sports nutrition.
The thesis is now a free download! Sign up for the monthly newsletter with any of the email forms on the website, and you automatically get a link to the subscriber bonus content page (check your last monthly newsletters for the link if you’re already subscribed).
Hi, I am now subscribed but how do I receive the book?
If you subscribe, you get automated emails. The first one asks you to confirm your subscription. Once you do, you’ll get another email with confirmation you’re subscribed and that email included a link to the thesis. Let me know if you got those emails and if you found it.
Hi Jorn! I’ve subscribe in your page after October 31th, that day was the last day for get the Link for your PhP hesis? Can I still get the link for download? Thank you. All your work & Science is amazing. Kind regards from México.
Hi Ernie,
Thank you for the kind words.
If you sign up, the link to the bonus content page should be in one in the confirmation email regardless of the date. If you somehow missed the confirmation email with the link, you’re still signed up for the monthly newsletter that has a link to the bonus content page. So as soon as you receive this months newsletter, you should have access.
Cheers,
Jorn
First of all congratulations are in order.
I do have a question on the topic of recovery that is very basic to begin with :
How do academics actually measure recovery? what are the state of the art metrics?
thank you and all the best for your future research (which i am hoping you will be sharing with us =) )
with best regards,
Stefan
Hey Stefan,
Thank you
“Recovery” can mean many things. In exercise, the concept it describes it that something (such as training of competition) induces a disruption of homeostasis and under those conditions you cannot perform at your baseline level. More simply: after doing some exercise, your subsequent exercise capacity is impaired. You can measure subsequent exercise performance as indicator of recovery.
But often a specific physiological variable is measured that will impact exercise performance, for example:
– the rate at which muscle glycogen is restored after exercise
– the rate at which muscle damage is restored after exercise
In my thesis I measured post-exercise muscle glycogen recovery and muscle protein synthesis rates (the process that restores muscle damage and helps the muscle adapt to training). There are different way to measure those, which can be done relatively simple to extremely complex, but those details are likely not of interest to most.
Kind regards,
Jorn
Hey John! How can i purchase the actual book. Jeff Nippard has a copy and I would love to read and review it!
Hey Robel,
I only printed a limited number and send them to some connections in the science and fitness world. There are no printed books for sale. Maybe make Jeff an offer 😉 Who knows how much they’ll be worth in 30 years 😉
Why I didn’t receive the link?
Hey Jules,
I don’t know. If you sign up for the newsletter, you get it automatically. Have you recieved any email? You should first get an email with a link to confirm you want to subscribe. If you click that link, you get a second link to confirm that you’re subscribed. That second email also contains the link to the subscriber bonus content page with the PhD download link.
I sign up and I confirm that I’m subscribed but I never see the link
Did you get an email confirming that you’re subscribed? Because in that confirmation email is the link.
If you’re indeed subscribed, you’ll also get a monthly newsletter that contains the link the bonus content page (but this would be at the end of the month).
Yeah but I don’t have the link, I can wait the end of the month 🙂
Where can i download this file?
Hey Antonio,
If you sign up for the monthly newsletter anywhere on the site, you automatically get a link to the subscriber bonus content page where you can download it.