The Role of Nutrition in Exercise and Sports

Dear Colleagues,

Nutrition influences every bodily process through its roles in energy production and tissue plasticity. Healthy adaptation to exercise requires a balanced intake of macro-/micronutrients and minerals to ensure optimal performance during training and competition, weight maintenance, and muscle recovery from exercise. Each sport has specific nutritional requirements depending on inter-individual differences (e.g., age, disease, gender, body mass) and/or environmental factors. Sport practitioners often recommend dietary supplements to take advantage of the beneficial effects of exercise while, at the same time, counteract its potential adverse effects (e.g., muscle damage, oxidative stress, fatigue). Sport nutrition is an always-evolving science that requires continuous updates in order to find cutting-edge strategies for optimal nutrition for specific groups of individuals and consequently improve exercise performance.

This Special Issue invites submissions of manuscripts, either original research or reviews, with an emphasis on describing the interplay between nutritional strategies and/or dietary supplements with exercise and its influence in muscle health and physical performance in different groups of subjects. The main focus is on human studies, but work in animal models will also be considered. We welcome different types of manuscript submissions, including original research articles and up-to-date reviews (systematic reviews and meta-analyses).

Dr. Roberta Ceci
Dr. Guglielmo Duranti
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Nutrients is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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