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New Strategies in Sport Nutrition to Increase Exercise Performance.

Close, GL, Hamilton, L, Philp, A, Burke, L and Morton, JP (2016) New Strategies in Sport Nutrition to Increase Exercise Performance. Free Radial Biology and Medicine. ISSN 0891-5849

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Abstract

Despite over 50 years of research, the field of sports nutrition continues to grow at a rapid rate. Whilst the traditional research focus was one that centred on strategies to maximize competition performance, emerging data in the last decade has demonstrated how both macronutrient and micronutrient availability can play a prominent role in regulating those cell signalling pathways that modulate skeletal muscle adaptations to endurance and resistance training. Nonetheless, in the context of exercise performance, it is clear that carbohydrate (but not fat) still remains king and that carefully chosen ergogenic aids (e.g. caffeine, creatine, sodium bicarbonate, beta-alanine, nitrates) can all promote performance in the correct exercise setting. In relation to exercise training, however, it is now thought that strategic periods of reduced carbohydrate and elevated dietary protein intake may enhance training adaptations whereas high carbohydrate availability and antioxidant supplementation may actually attenuate training adaptation. Emerging evidence also suggests that vitamin D may play a regulatory role in muscle regeneration and subsequent hypertrophy following damaging forms of exercise. Finally, novel compounds (albeit largely examined in rodent models) such as epicatechins, nicotinamide riboside, resveratrol, β-hydroxy β-methylbutyrate, phosphatidic acid and ursolic acid may also promote or attenuate skeletal muscle adaptations to endurance and strength training. When taken together, it is clear that sports nutrition is very much at the heart of the Olympic motto, Citius, Altius, Fortius (faster, higher, stronger).

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: 0304 Medicinal And Biomolecular Chemistry, 0601 Biochemistry And Cell Biology
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine
Divisions: Sport & Exercise Sciences
Publisher: Elsevier
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Date Deposited: 22 Feb 2016 15:29
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2021 13:22
DOI or ID number: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2016.01.016
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/2977
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