Ep 299 - Can You Legally Give Someone Macros? Nutrition Scope of Practice (ft. Danny Lennon and Alex Thomas)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this Iron Culture/Sports Nutrition Association/Sigma Nutrition Radio crossover episode, host Eric Helms is joined by co-host Danny Lennon and guest Alex Thomas. Alex is the president of the Sports Nutrition Association who started this association years ago when he was rudely awakened to the fact that he couldn’t provide nutrition advice in his personal training clinic, despite having done so for years, having an RD on staff, and getting a degree in exercise science and nutrition. This prompted him to do a deep dive into scope of practice, insurance, legal requirements to provide nutrition coaching, and eventually to realise just how large of a gap there is in the nutrition coaching industry. Becoming aware of how common coach negligence leading to poorer consumer health is, spurred him to create the Sports Nutrition Association. Now SNA seeks to elevate the profession of nutrition coaching and protect the public. In this episode we navigate the confusing world of scope of practice, both legally and from a liability perspective, and why it’s not only an important box ticking exercise, but a fundamental part of serving your clients.

Time stamps:

00:00 Introduction to a podcast that needs a longer name and title

01:32 What is the Sports Nutrition Association?

06:15 Protected titles, scope of practice, and insurance

22:30 The importance of scope of practice and advice for practitioners

38:58 Trends and big claims in the space, risk/reward and consequences

51:36 Areas where practitioners should focus on and what to do going forward

1:00:06 The career pyramid for nutritionists

1:02:01 Closing out and where to find out more about the SNA

Website https://sportsnutritionassociation.com/

Instagram @sportsnutritionassociation https://www.instagram.com/sportsnutritionassociation/

Sigma Nutrition Radio https://sigmanutrition.com/podcast-welcome/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this special crossover episode yet again where I'm joined by my wonderful
0:06.6	co-host, Dr. Eric Helms. Eric, how are you? I'm well, Mr. Danny Lennon, and it's great to be back
0:14.2	on the SNA Iron Sigma Culture Radio podcast news channel. We haven't to come up with a good name yet, Alex, but we're trying really hard.
0:24.6	I think we've nearly got it.
0:26.6	I think what the problem is we're trying to use two few words, Danny.
0:28.6	I think we need more words in the title.
0:30.6	Yeah.
0:31.6	Yeah.
0:32.6	To me, I don't know if you guys are fans of the office, but there's a great little moment in one of the scenes where Michael Scott spells out the headline and it's like basically a full paragraph of text.
0:43.3	I think that's where we're going with this title.
0:45.3	100%.
0:46.3	100%.
0:47.3	I want the title of the podcast to make listening to the podcast optional.
0:52.3	I think that's when we know we've hit on gold.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:56.3	Well, I mean, it's a unique thing.
0:57.7	If we have the longest title in podcast history,
1:00.7	people are going to say,
1:02.1	that's what I want to listen to.
1:03.6	That's right.
1:04.0	We're just doing the Rob Mechleheny version of podcast titles.
1:08.1	There you go.
	...

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