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Dr Ricardo Costa works in the Department of Nutrition Dietetics & Food, Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University as an academic, researchers, consultant and practitioner in Sports Dietetics and Extremes Physiology. Ricardo is a HCPC Registered Dietitian-UK, SENr Registered Sport Dietitian- UK, Accredited Practicing Dietitian-Aus and Advanced Sports Dietitian-Aus, who came to Monash University in August 2013 from Coventry University-UK.
Ricardo completed his PhD at the University of Wales- UK, in neuroendocrine and nutritional immunology on the influence of sleep deprivation, cold exposure, exercise stress and nutritional intervention on selected immune responses; which examined the impact of individual and combined stressors on immune function. Additionally, the role of nutrition intervention in attenuation exercise-induce perturbations to immune function. Ricardo's recent work has focused on the impact of multi-stressor activity on immune, thermoregulatory, and gastrointestinal health; and additionally, the impact of ultra-marathon competition on nutrition and hydration status, and implication for health.
Prior to joining Monash, his academic activities at Coventry University- UK (2009-2013), included postgraduate Sport and Exercise Nutrition Course Director, Research Fellow, and led the Coventry University Sport and Exercise Nutritional Support and Research Team (2010-2013). Areas of research interest, funding, and outputs include: exercise, nutrition and environmental physiology and immunology; sports and exercise nutrition; and exercise gastroenterology. Ricardo's recent post-doc work focused on the impact of multi-stressor activity on immune, thermoregulatory, and gastrointestinal responses; and additionally, the impact of ultra-marathon competition on nutrition and hydration status. Before entering a career in academics he was a professional/semi-professional Trialthlete/Duathlete competing on the World and European circuit between 1994-2003.
Research interests
Research Interest: Ricardos research interests include the impact of exercise stress with and without other stressors on gut health, and role of nutrition in attenuating or exacerbating stress induce perturbations to gut health. Over the last few years he has established and led an international multi-centre research team investigating the impact of ultra-endurance competition on nutritional and hydration status, and on various physiological and immunological parameters; in which issue of gut health have been identified. Previously, as course director for Sports Dietetic training in the UK, he is an active consultant and supervisor in Sports Dietetics, providing and supervising sport and exercise nutritional support to a wide range of sports at recreational, amateur, and elite (Olympic athletes) level.
Research Expertise: Dietary assessment and analysis, recipe development, indirect calorimetry, hydration status measurement techniques, thermoregulation, exercise physiology measurement techniques (including anthropometrics), exercise immunology, gastrointestinal assessment during exercise; sample collection techniques and processing, enzyme linked immunosorbent assay techniques, field and laboratory based experimental designs.
Keywords
- sports nutrition
- dietetics
- hydration
- immunity
- thermoregulation
- gastrointestinal symptoms
- Gastrointestinal Function
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Projects 2016 2020
The impact of sodium ingestion during exercise on plasma sodium concentration, plasma volume and sodium balance during and 24 hours post exercise in ultra-endurance athletes.
McCubbin, A. & Da Costa, R. J.
4/02/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
The impact of day-time and night-time endurance exercise on gastrointestinal integrity, functional responses, symptoms, and systemic endotoxin and cytokine profiles - A laboratory controlled mechanistic exploration of circadian variation influences in ultra-endurance athletes.
Da Costa, R. J., Gaskell, S., Muir, J. G. & Burgell, R.
4/02/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Lion-Rec: GRIP- Food and Dairy, Lion Sports Recovery
Da Costa, R. J., Kannar, D. & Porter, J. A.
Monash University – Internal Department Contribution
24/07/17 → 23/07/20
Project: Research
Lion- AA: Lion GRIP Food & Dairy- Active Aging
Da Costa, R. J., Porter, J. A. & Kannar, D.
24/07/17 → 23/07/20
Project: Research
Supporting Nutritional Requirements During Extreme Physical Exertion: The BASE Essentials.
1/01/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
Research Output 2005 2018
The impact of exertional-heat stress on gastrointestinal integrity, gastrointestinal symptoms, systemic endotoxin and cytokine profile
Snipe, R. M. J., Khoo, A., Kitic, C. M., Gibson, P. R. & Costa, R. J. S., 1 Feb 2018, In : European Journal of Applied Physiology. 118, 2, p. 389-400 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
The influence of aerobic exercise on hippocampal integrity and function: Preliminary findings of a multi-modal imaging analysis
Den Ouden, L., Kandola, A., Suo, C., Hendrikse, J., Costa, R., Watt, M. J., Lorenzetti, V., Chye, Y., Parkes, L., Sabaroedin, K. & Yücel, M., 25 Mar 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : Brain Plasticity. 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Two weeks of repetitive gut-challenge reduce exercise-associated gastrointestinal symptoms and malabsorption
Miall, A., Khoo, A., Rauch, C., Snipe, R. M. J., Camões-Costa, V. L., Gibson, P. R. & Costa, R. J. S., Feb 2018, In : Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. 28, 2, p. 630-640 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Carbohydrate and protein intake during exertional heat stress ameliorates intestinal epithelial injury and small intestine permeability
Snipe, R. M. J., Khoo, A., Kitic, C. M., Gibson, P. R. & Da Costa, R. J. S., 1 Jan 2017, In : Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism. 42, 12, p. 1283-1292 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Gut-training: the impact of two weeks repetitive gut-challenge during exercise on gastrointestinal status, glucose availability, fuel kinetics, and running performance
Da Costa, R. J. S., Miall, A., Khoo, A., Rauch, C. & Snipe, R., 19 Jan 2017, In : Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism. 42, 5, p. 547-557 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review