From Food Supplements to Functional Foods: Emerging Perspectives on Post-Exercise Recovery Nutrition

Nutrients, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(23), P. 4081 - 4081

Published: Nov. 27, 2024

Effective post-exercise recovery is vital for optimizing athletic performance, focusing on muscle repair, glycogen replenishment, rehydration, and inflammation management. This review explores the evolving trend from traditional supplements, such as protein, carbohydrates, creatine, branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs), toward functional foods rich in bioactive compounds. Evidence highlights benefits of like tart cherry juice (anthocyanins), turmeric-seasoned foods, sources omega-3 fatty acids, including fish, flaxseeds, chia seeds, walnuts, mitigating oxidative stress inflammation. Additionally, probiotics prebiotics support gut health immune function, which are integral to effective recovery. Personalized nutrition, informed by genetic metabolic profiling, examined a promising approach tailor strategies. A systematic search across PubMed, Web Science, Google Scholar (2000–2024) identified studies with high empirical rigor relevance outcomes. Findings underscore need further research into nutrient interactions, dosage optimization, long-term effects performance. Integrating personalized nutrition presents comprehensive framework enhanced recovery, greater resilience physical stress, sustained performance athletes.

Language: Английский

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Key Factors Driving Portuguese Individuals to Use Food Supplements—Findings from a Cross-Sectional Study

Foods, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14(5), P. 884 - 884

Published: March 5, 2025

Data on food supplement (FS) consumption profiles are scarce. This study aims to characterise FS among Portuguese adults and identify personal, social, professional, health-related factors influencing use. A cross-sectional was conducted using an online questionnaire between July September 2023. The participants were categorised into healthcare professionals (supplement users non-users, i.e., HPS HPnS) non-healthcare nHPS nHPnS). Group distributions compared the χ2 test. use is very prevalent in Portugal. Significant differences emerged HPs nHPs regarding associated with Socioeconomic professional characteristics, nutritional knowledge, healthy lifestyles (e.g., eating habits) all linked consumption. Despite groups, across higher education levels, healthier lifestyle habits, such as engaging sports translate a of FSs. frequent FSs education, lifestyles. have specific attitudes through These findings indicate need for further research explore various types being utilised underlying motivations behind their usage. HPs' access scientific information providing practical guidance promote responsible informed within population crucial.

Language: Английский

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Pattern of Consumption of Sports Supplements of Spanish Handball Players: Differences According to Gender and Competitive Level

Nutrients, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(2), P. 315 - 315

Published: Jan. 20, 2024

(1) Background: Given the physiological characteristics of handball, players may require use certain sports supplements (SS). However, very few studies have investigated consumption SS in handball. The aims were to determine number handball who consume SS, analyze their pattern according gender and competitive level, assess whether they are supported by scientific evidence, which group belong classification Australian Institute Sport (AIS). (2) Methods: A descriptive-correlational study was carried out on habitual 360 federated Spanish using a self-administered validated questionnaire. (3) Results: These showed 65.8% sample consumed SS. According total participants, most from Group A: drinks (30.8%) whey protein (30.4%). When analyzing data gender, men’s significantly higher for (p < 0.001), caffeine = 0.009), creatine monohydrate 0.001). analyzed provincial category lower than rest groups bars 0.038), 0.005) while honor division intake remaining (4) Conclusions: moderate without substances that not evidence opting cases belonging AIS classification. Men tended more increased based level.

Language: Английский

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Predicting Sprint Potential: A Machine Learning Model Based on Blood Metabolite Profiles in Young Male Athletes

European Journal of Sport Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 25(3)

Published: Feb. 24, 2025

ABSTRACT This study aims to utilize male blood metabolite signatures for (i) distinguishing between healthy individuals and athletes, thereby optimizing the athlete screening process; (ii) predicting athletic performance in 100, 200, 400 m sprints, enhancing precompetition preparation intervention strategies. Initially, we employed nontargeted metabolomics analyze metabolome of ( n = 10) athletes 10), identifying differential expressed metabolites (DEMs) potentially related through analysis, consensus clustering, WGCNA, UMAP analysis. Subsequently, using LASSO‐Cox refined our selection two core DEMs: HMDB0012085 (Sphingomyelin (d18:0/14:0)) HMDB0009224 (Phosphatidylethanolamine(20:0/18:1(9Z))) associated with performance. We then applied targeted measure levels these DEMs a larger cohort, including 50) 100), revealing significant increase compared individuals. Utilizing 13 machine learning classification methods, demonstrated that effectively differentiate athletes. Notably, exhibits greater feature importance across multiple algorithms HMDB0009224. Specifically, decision trees (94.1 vs. 5.9), random forests (60.7 39.3), gradient boosting (91.5 8.5), CatBoost (61.7 38.3), ExtraTrees (64.7 35.3), XGBoost (74.5 25.5). Finally, found negative correlation whole sprint times races. In conclusion, hold promise as biomarkers potential males.

Language: Английский

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Unpacking the impacts of caffeine containing energy drinks on athletic performance

Elsevier eBooks, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 95 - 114

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Assessment of Dietary Requirements Through Sports-Specific Training

Methods and protocols in food science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 129 - 145

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Elite adolescent male soccer players require further education to improve sports nutrition knowledge

Published: April 11, 2025

Adolescent male soccer players are vulnerable to unsubstantiated nutrition information, which may negatively impact their knowledge. Aim: This descriptive study aimed investigate sports knowledge from a professional club youth squad inform future targeted education. Methods: Fifteen adolescent completed the validated online Finland Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire. Results: In total, 62% of participants answered all questions correctly. The highest level was 80% correctly answering suite fluid balance and hydration questions. A moderate demonstrated for dietary supplement questions, with 67% identifying appropriate use, while 63% about recommendations elite athletes. lowest found in terms energy intake recovery association between food choices body image correct answers achieved by 52% 54% participants, respectively. Conclusions: These results show that this cohort benefit education targeting performance recovery, requires modification iterations questionnaire qualitative interviews.

Language: Английский

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Vitamin B6 status is related to disease severity and modulated by endurance exercise in individuals with multiple sclerosis: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Two robust zinc(II) coordination polymers as dual functional sensors for selective and sensitive detection of sulfamethoxazole antibiotic and ferric ion

Journal of Molecular Structure, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 1297, P. 136950 - 136950

Published: Oct. 28, 2023

Language: Английский

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Dietary Intake of Athletes at the World Masters Athletics Championships as Assessed by Single 24 h Recall

Nutrients, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(4), P. 564 - 564

Published: Feb. 19, 2024

Proper dietary intake is important for masters athletes because of the physiological changes that occur with aging and unique nutritional needs when competing at high levels. We evaluated World Masters Athletics Championships (outdoor games, Tampere, Finland, 2022, indoor Torun, Poland, 2023). A total 43 (16 females 27 males, mean age 59.2 ± 10.3 y, height 168 8 cm, body mass 62.3 10.8 kg) participating in endurance (n = 21), sprint 16), jumping (2), multi-component (e.g., decathlon; n 3), throwing 1) events provided 24 h recalls while games. Carbohydrate was below recommended levels athletes. Protein athletes, except female involved power (i.e., sprinters jumpers). Other nutrient intakes were included vitamins D E, calcium, potassium, vitamin (except athletes), folate C K fiber zinc conclude world championships, many are not consuming carbohydrates, protein, micronutrients. Athletes attending these games would benefit from increased support.

Language: Английский

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