Low energy availability increases immune cell formation of reactive oxygen species and impairs exercise performance in female endurance athletes
Jan S. Jeppesen · Hannah G. Caldwell · Lone O. Lossius · Anna K. Melin · Lasse Gliemann · Jens Bangsbo · Ylva Hellsten
Redox Biology · 2024
What the research tells us
Low availability impaired performance; the time-trial impairment persisted after three refueling days.
Scope & interpretation
Small athlete sample; energy and nutrient availability changed together. Immune-cell measures do not establish clinical illness.
Study at a glance
- POPULATION & SAMPLE
- 12 female endurance athletes; randomized crossover.
- EXPOSURE / INTERVENTION / SUBJECT
- Low versus optimal energy availability, followed by refueling.
- OUTCOMES
- Cycling performance and immune-cell/physiological measures.
- TIME FRAME
- Fourteen days per dietary condition, then three refueling days.
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- Study funding
- Danish Ministry of Culture sports-research funding; Frimodt-Heineke Fonden; Novo Nordisk Foundation support for Team Denmark’s training-strategies and competition-preparation network.
- Competing interests
- Authors declared no known competing financial interests or personal relationships affecting the work.
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Founded and supported by Resilio.
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