Nick Foreman

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Nick Foreman


School: Milken Institute School of Public Health

Department: Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

Programs: Exercise Physiology and Applied Nutrition

Nick Foreman is a PhD candidate in the Exercise Physiology and Applied Nutrition program. He has a Masters degree in Kinesiology from the University of Minnesota, where he conducted research on distance runners and endurance performance. His research interests center around postprandial metabolism in health and disease. His dissertation focuses on changes to postprandial metabolism with exercise and acute high-fat overfeeding. He also contributes to projects on acute meal timing and dose in young adults and non-nutritive sweetener restriction in pregnancy.


Program: Exercise Physiology and Applied Nutrition

Concentration: Exercise Physiology 

Advisor: Matthew Barberio

Start Year: Fall 2022

Protective effect of exercise against acute high-fat overfeeding

Effect of meal timing and dose on postprandial hemodynamic, vascular, and metabolic responses

Foreman NA, Rajwade SN, Bluth J, Skoglund LC, Letts AM, DiPietro L, Ciarleglio A, Barberio MD. Increased Postprandial Metabolic Flexibility is Associated with Higher Body Fat Percentages in Healthy Young Adults. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024.08.23.609405; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.23.609405

Lundstrom CJ, Foreman NA, Biltz G. Practices and Applications of Heart Rate Variability Monitoring in Endurance Athletes. Int J Sports Med. 2023 Jan;44(1):9-19. doi: 10.1055/a-1864-9726. Epub 2022 Jul 19. PMID: 35853460.

Foreman NA, Lee EJ, Lundstrom CJ. Assessment of a Treadmill Speed Incline Conversion Chart: A Validation Study. Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2022 Mar 17;17(7):1030-1036. doi: 10.1123/ijspp.2021-0021. PMID: 35299154; PMCID: PMC10707652.

Foreman NA, Hesse AS, Ji LL. Redox Signaling and Sarcopenia: Searching for the Primary Suspect. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Aug 22;22(16):9045. doi: 10.3390/ijms22169045. PMID: 34445751; PMCID: PMC8396474.

EXNS 3111W - Research Methods for Exercise & Nutrition Sciences

University of Minnesota