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Sports nutrition: emerging role in translational medicine

Diet significantly affects athletic performance, and adopting a dietary strategy that meets an athlete’s nutrition goals will maximize the possibility of competitive success. Over the years, the focus has shifted from general recommendations to a highly sophisticated, personalized approach. In the last decade, there is a growing recognition that the primary role of sports nutrition may be to promote the adaptations taking place in muscle and other tissues in response to the training stimulus. There is also significant interest in the implications of manipulation of the fat and carbohydrate content of the diet. However, due to recent advances in system biology, biochemistry, and bioinformatics, new knowledge has developed. The role of all cells present in our body (eukaryotic and prokaryotic) is now taken into account when considering the metabolic equilibrium and nutritional needs. In this respect, translational research that brings together fundamental (basic research) and applied (clinical research) is seeing as one of the best approaches to meeting individual personal needs. The four main pillars of this approach are prediction, prevention, personalization, and participation (known as “P4 principles”). The presentation will briefly discuss how we can introduce these elements while designing personalized sports nutrition.

sports nutrition, prediction, prevention, personalization, translational research

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