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Inigo San Millan, PhD

Assistant Professor
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, Colorado

Over the past twenty-seven years I have been working as an applied exercise physiologist and sports medicine advisor to many professional teams and athletes worldwide.
I have been a pioneer in the development new methodologies in different fields of athletic performance like physiological and metabolic assessment and protocols to assess mitochondrial function, lactate metabolism, nutrition, glycogen measurement, recovery, overtraining, blood analysis, metabolomics, or muscle damage monitoring and prevention. I have spent twenty-seven years studying the metabolic and physiological response to exercise in the elite athlete as well as the adaptations at the cellular and mitochondrial level.
My main passion also is the application of the knowledge I have acquired with elite athletes to populations with different chronic diseases like cardiometabolic diseases, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes as well as cancer and ICU patients.
World-class athletes possess the most perfect physiology and metabolism known in humans. Hence, they are perfection. As I always say, we cannot understand imperfection without understanding perfection in the first place. Working with world-class athletes has allowed me to understand what perfection is at the physiological and metabolic level.
Like in the case of elite athletes, I have developed novel methodologies to assess metabolic function to work with populations with chronic diseases as well as to apply individualized exercise prescription to improve multiple metabolic dysfunctions involved in multiple diseases; a term that I have coined “Metabolic Rehabilitation”.
I am currently a faculty at the University of Colorado, in the departments of Medicine as well as Human Physiology and Nutrition. My areas of research, clinical work and interest include sports performance, metabolic health, exercise metabolism, cancer metabolism, nutrition, diabetes and critical care.

No financial relationships to disclose.

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