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Allison Wade

Allison Wade

Sports dietitian (MS, RDN, LDN, CSSD) serving as Associate Director of Performance Nutrition for LSU Athletics, working with the men's basketball program.

Sep 25, 2026

9:18
And maybe our listeners don't either.
9:19
Yeah.
9:20
Um, I think you can overkill it a little.
9:23
And you also have to consider like how time intensive it is, right? Like doing weigh-ins and hydration testing and all of that.
9:30
Like I think it one depends on like what's your budget? What kind of devices do you have? Do you have interns? Do you have help, right? Like if it's just me, right? Like I personally use a device that's called the MX3 and I can do saliva based hydration testing.
9:46
Which I honestly just will do around travel, maybe night before a game, a few hours out from a game, because it allows me to see real time where they're at and rehydrate them.
9:57
So if we have a longer trip, right, like last year we went to Hawaii, right? So we had a 12 hour flight.

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42:02
Let's make sure that we're supplementing and we're not staying completely away from it.
12:15
So how do you determine what, Is that what I want is in the bottle or what fluid or is diluted in the bottle? And then how do you get them to go through it? And then how does that impact the way out process at the end? Sorry, that's a lot.
12:36
Yeah.
12:37
No, that's it's all good questions.
12:39
So like what I'll do is when I sweat test them, right? Like I will look for about an hour that they're going to maybe do an individual on court workout.
12:47
And I like to do this early in the summer before we're getting into anything intense.
12:52
So I let them get here, get adapted a little bit, and then I'll put a sweat patch on them.
12:57
I use MX3.

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21:31
Do you have... a curriculum is there a generic build-up that you start with or is it simply just like you're kind of work in the room like we would in the weight room and are like jimmy eats like this joey eats like that and this is how we can help them get better step by step

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