Nutraceuticals and Sports Performance
A special issue of Nutraceuticals (ISSN 1661-3821).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 5946
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The nutraceutical environment is one of the world’s leading markets of the food industry, which encompasses a broad range of products, such as functional foods and beverages, fortified foods and dietary supplements. The interaction of these nutraceuticals and sports supplements with exercise is a research area that has received substantial attention due to their combined positive effect on cognitive function, exercise performance and/or health-related outcomes for athletes. Despite this attention and promising evidence, the efficacy and reliability of many nutraceuticals and sports supplements in human participants remain unclear.
There is a call for research within this field to understand the reasons for variability and/ or lack of effects within previous research, while also identifying the situations during which the efficacy of nutraceuticals and sport supplements may be most effective. As such, personalised sports and exercise nutrition focuses on the contextual variables that may influence the applicability and efficacy of an intervention. These factors may include the stratification of participant cohorts by age, gender, ethnicity, health status, presence of a placebo effect, environmental conditions (e.g. hypoxia, heat and cold), training status, co-supplementation/ dietary intake, susceptibility to gastrointestinal distress, genotypes and/or type of sport/activity performed. Furthermore, this area challenges the current misconceptions that sport supplements only concern elite and professional athletes. As such, this research theme also incorporates the fundamental principles and knowledge within sporting populations and applies it to exercise performance in healthy and/or clinical general populations (e.g., recreational athletes, healthy ageing and/or professional athletes).
This Special Issue welcomes the submission of original articles or reviews that can improve our knowledge about the beneficial effects of nutraceuticals for sports performance.
Dr. Sanjoy Deb
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sports nutrition
- sports performance
- exercise
- dietary supplements
- functional foods
- nutrient–exercise interaction
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