Human Health and Performance
Research Lab
Solving contemporary high-performance problems through partnership informed solutions
Our mission
- • Create new knowledge through peer-reviewed articles• Create insights into current thinking through critical reviews
• Innovate and challenge the status quo - • Stress test our research in real world environments• Apply our findings with external partners to influence the industry
- • Capture the benefits of our work• Use our impact as a feed-forward for more performance questions
Exploring exercise behaviours in Phenylketonuria patients
This research will aim to explore physical activity and exercise behaviours in patients with the rare inherited metabolic disorder Phenylketonuria (PKU).
Our pillars of work
Supplementation
Behaviour Change and Education
Recovery
Meet the lab lead
Lewis has sourced over £700k of external income for research collaboration with industry partners both nationally and internationally. To date, this has led to over 65 high-quality outputs in nutrition and physiology with a focus on exercise metabolism and fatigue. This has primarily focussed on high-performance athletes, but Lewis conducts research in health-related areas such as Long COVID, Vitamin D supplementation, phenylketonuria, and haemochromatosis.
Meet the team
Dr Helen Gravestock, Dr Neil Clarke, Mark Jeffreys, Dr Adam Herbert, Avital Prais, Dr Jennie Carter, Dr Charlie Roberts, Dr Craig Perrin, Callum Davidson, Dr Peter Thain, Dr Anthony Weldon, Dr Cain Clark, Professor Ahmad Alkhatib.
Our external partners
We are working with a variety of external partners, including Maurten, Burton Albion Community Trust, Bimuno, City of Birmingham Swimming Club, Aquatics GB, Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, South Asian Cricket Academy (SACA), Haemachromatosis UK, World Lacrosse, and Vitaflo.
