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Nov 20
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BEN GREENFIELD
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Dr. Andrew Koutnik is a research scientist whose career bridges cutting-edge science, elite performance, and personal experience living with type 1 diabetes for over 17 years. His work focuses on how nutrition, metabolism, and lifestyle can be leveraged to maximize human health, performance, and resilience across diverse conditions—from chronic disease to extreme environments.

Dr. Andrew Koutnik earned his Ph.D. in Medical Sciences (Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology) from the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. Prior to joining FSU, Dr. Andrew Koutnik served as a Faculty/Principal Investigator at Sansum Diabetes Research Institute and Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. His research has spanned over $70,000,000 in research funding, including NASA missions, U.S. Special Operations Command, Defense Advanced Research Projects, Office of Naval Research, Department of Defense, and NIH-funded clinical trials

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