[HTML][HTML] The molecular athlete: exercise physiology from mechanisms to medals

R Furrer, JA Hawley, C Handschin - Physiological Reviews, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Human skeletal muscle demonstrates remarkable plasticity, adapting to numerous external
stimuli including the habitual level of contractile loading. Accordingly, muscle function and …

Ketogenic low‐CHO, high‐fat diet: the future of elite endurance sport?

LM Burke - The Journal of physiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of ketogenic low‐carbohydrate (CHO) high‐fat (K‐LCHF) diets to enhance
muscle fat oxidation has led to claims that it is the 'future of elite endurance sport'. There is …

[HTML][HTML] Defining training and performance caliber: a participant classification framework

AKA McKay, T Stellingwerff… - … journal of sports …, 2021 - journals.humankinetics.com
Throughout the sport-science and sports-medicine literature, the term “elite” subjects might
be one of the most overused and ill-defined terms. Currently, there is no common …

Effects of 30 days of ketogenic diet on body composition, muscle strength, muscle area, metabolism, and performance in semi-professional soccer players

A Antonio Paoli, L Mancin, M Caprio, E Monti… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Springer
Background A ketogenic diet (KD) is a nutritional approach, usually adopted for weight loss,
that restricts daily carbohydrates under 30 g/day. KD showed contradictory results on sport …

Efficacy of popular diets applied by endurance athletes on sports performance: Beneficial or detrimental? A narrative review

A Devrim-Lanpir, L Hill, B Knechtle - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Endurance athletes need a regular and well-detailed nutrition program in order to fill their
energy stores before training/racing, to provide nutritional support that will allow them to …

Nutritional approaches to counter performance constraints in high‐level sports competition

LM Burke - Experimental physiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
New Findings What is the topic of this review? The nutritional strategies that athletes use
during competition events to optimize performance and the reasons they use them. What …

Adaptation to a low carbohydrate high fat diet is rapid but impairs endurance exercise metabolism and performance despite enhanced glycogen availability

LM Burke, J Whitfield, IA Heikura… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Key points Brief (5–6 days) adaptation to a low carbohydrate high fat diet in elite athletes
increased exercise fat oxidation to rates previously observed with medium (3–4 weeks) or …

Iron metabolism: interactions with energy and carbohydrate availability

AKA McKay, DB Pyne, LM Burke, P Peeling - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
The provision or restriction of select nutrients in an athlete's diet can elicit a variety of
changes in fuel utilization, training adaptation, and performance outcomes. Furthermore …

Low carbohydrate high fat ketogenic diets on the exercise crossover point and glucose homeostasis

TD Noakes, PJ Prins, JS Volek, DP D'Agostino… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In exercise science, the crossover effect denotes that fat oxidation is the primary fuel at rest
and during low-intensity exercise with a shift towards an increased reliance on carbohydrate …

Six days of low carbohydrate, not energy availability, alters the iron and immune response to exercise in elite athletes

AKA McKay, P Peeling, DB Pyne… - … and Science in …, 2022 - acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au
Purpose To quantify the effects of a short-term (6-d) low carbohydrate (CHO) high fat
(LCHF), and low energy availability (LEA) diet on immune, inflammatory, and iron-regulatory …