Nutrition, Metabolism and Fitness: Exploring Dietary Effects on Exercise Physiology
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Physiology and Pathology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 27 August 2026 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: exercise training; HIIT; sports; physical fitness; performance; exercise physiology; health; obesity and comorbidities; type 2 Diabetes; metabolism; nutrition; appetite and endocrine system
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutrition plays a central role in modulating metabolism, physical performance, and exercise-induced adaptations across the lifespan. In recent years, growing interest has emerged in understanding how dietary patterns, nutritional strategies, and metabolic regulation interact with exercise physiology to influence health, fitness, and athletic performance. This Special Issue of Life aims to provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary platform to explore the complex relationships between nutrition, metabolism, and physical fitness.
Advances in nutritional science, molecular biology, and exercise physiology have enabled more precise investigations into how macronutrients, micronutrients, bioactive compounds, and dietary interventions affect metabolic pathways, energy balance, muscle function, recovery, and adaptive responses to physical activity. Furthermore, emerging research highlights the importance of individualized and context-specific nutritional approaches, considering factors such as training status, sex, age, health condition, and environmental stressors.
This Special Issue invites original research articles, reviews, and methodological contributions addressing the effects of nutrition on exercise performance, metabolic health, and physiological adaptations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, nutritional strategies for optimizing training and recovery, metabolic responses to acute and chronic exercise, diet–exercise interactions in health and disease, and the role of nutrition in physical fitness, fatigue, and resilience. Contributions integrating experimental, clinical, and applied perspectives, as well as translational and interdisciplinary approaches, are particularly encouraged.
By bringing together cutting-edge research from diverse fields, this Special Issue aims to advance scientific understanding, stimulate critical discussion, and promote evidence-based strategies at the intersection of nutrition, metabolism, and exercise physiology, with implications for both athletic performance and public health.
Prof. Dr. Jesús Gustavo Ponce González
Dr. Daniel Velázquez Díaz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- exercise physiology
- sports nutrition
- metabolic health
- diet–exercise interactions
- nutritional interventions
- energy metabolism
- performance and recovery
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