![]() They have every imaginable piece of equipment. ![]() Cal Poly has a really incredible food science laboratory. Karnazes: I did some work with Balance Bar, with PowerBar, and I was doing a lot of formulation in the lab at Cal Poly. This was back in the late ’80s, right when Brian Maxwell and his wife came up with PowerBar. So I was very interested in food formulation. I was an athlete in college and looking for ways to boost my performance, basically manipulating food in a way that is more concentrated and better for an athlete. NBJ spoke with him from his home in Marin County.ĭean Karnazes: I actually studied dietetics as part of a minor in biochemistry at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and then went into food science as a graduate student. ![]() With an academic and professional background in food science and many thousands of miles of trial and error, Karnazes knows sports nutrition from the lab to the lunchbox. ![]() Dean Karnazes, author of Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner, is probably the best known athlete in an extreme endurance niche where a marathon is just a warm-up and events include the infamous 135-mile Badwater race across Death Valley in July. ![]()
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