Nutritional Advisory Board

Julián Álvarez García, M.D.

Julián Álvarez García, M.D., is a member of Herbalife's Nutrition Advisory Board, made up of leading experts around the world in the fields of nutrition and health who educate and train Herbalife independent distributors on the principles of nutrition, physical activity and healthy lifestyle.

Alicante-based Álvarez specializes in sports medicine and physical education. Over the past 20 years he has advised a number of professional and Olympic sports teams in triathlons, mountain biking, football and basketball. He currently manages sports medicine at the Mediterranean Clinic of Neurosciences.

He has also acted as advisor to the Association of Olympic Sportsmen and Women at the Atlanta Olympics 1996, served as manager of medical services to the Spanish Federation of Weight Lifters from 1992 to 1995, and held responsibility for the Spanish Olympic team at the Mediterranean games in France in 1993. From 1995 to 2000 he was the head of the medical services at the International High Performance Altitude Training Center in Sierra Nevada (Granada-Spain), and from 2000 to 2004 was the team doctor of a professional basketball team in the Spanish Major League (ACB).

As an academic, Álvarez has lectured in sports medicine and physical education throughout Spain, coordinating study programs and lecturing to masters programs in sports physiotherapy at the European University in Madrid and on postgraduate courses in sports nutrition.

An active researcher and publisher both at home and internationally, Álvarez has also contributed to or written books on the physiology of exercise, supplements in sport and the biological aspects of an athlete's education. He is a regular contributor to both radio and television broadcasts on health, nutrition and sport.

Álvarez is a founder member of the Spanish Association of Specialists in Sports and Physical Education Medicine and a member of the Spanish Association of Basketball Doctors. He also holds memberships of the American and European Colleges of Sports Medicine.