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After 25 years in the chemical industry, Nick Theodorou ’72 has switched the focus of his chemical knowledge to the human body. After founding Nutritional Technologies, a company that wholesales vitamins and sport supplements and provides personal training, Theodorou also founded the American Drug-Free Powerlifting Association.
“I got into weight lifting way back in high school when I weighed 123 pounds,” he said. “I was a classic ‘skinny little guy.’ ” Now five feet, nine inches and still “pretty lean,” he weighs about 165 pounds but has deadlifted up to 562 pounds.
After graduating from Lafayette, Theodorou progressed through a variety of positions in research-and-development, sales and marketing, and purchasing during a 17-year career with a national chemical company. In 1990, he established NT Reagents to provide sales and consulting services to the reagent and specialty chemical industry. At about the same time, he discovered the primary sources of nutritional supplements.
Nutritional Technologies sells products such as Ornithine alpha-Ketoglutarate, known to help build lean muscle, and Immunocal, a pharmaceutical-grade milk serum. Theodorou
personally uses his products on the “fields of battle” and is many times a Pennsylvania State Powerlifting champion, as well as a two-time National Masters Deadlift champion and an AAU World champion.
“When I joined the Twin City Powerlifting Team (in 1972), I really wasn’t very good,” he said. “But when you do something for 20–30 years, you tend to get better.”