by Ana C Gonçalves, Dário Gaspar, JoséDavid Flores-Félix, Amílcar Falcão, Gilberto Alves and Luís R Silva
Abstract:
In recent years, many efforts have been made to identify micronutrients or nutritional strategies capable of preventing, or at least, attenuating, exercise-induced muscle damage and oxidative stress, and improving athlete performance. The reason is that most exercises induce various changes in mitochondria and cellular cytosol that lead to the generation of reactive species and free radicals whose accumulation can be harmful to human health. Among them, supplementation with phenolic compounds seems to be a promising approach since their chemical structure, composed of catechol, pyrogallol, and methoxy groups, gives them remarkable health-promoting properties, such as the ability to suppress inflammatory processes, counteract oxidative damage, boost the immune system, and thus, reduce muscle soreness and accelerate recovery. Phenolic compounds have also already been shown to be effective in improving temporal performance and reducing psychological stress and fatigue. Therefore, the aim of this review is to summarize and discuss the current knowledge on the effects of dietary phenolics on physical performance and recovery in athletes and sports practitioners. Overall, the reports show that phenolics exert important benefits on exercise-induced muscle damage as well as play a biological/physiological role in improving physical performance.
Reference:
Effects of Functional Phenolics Dietary Supplementation on Athletes' Performance and Recovery: A Review. (Ana C Gonçalves, Dário Gaspar, JoséDavid Flores-Félix, Amílcar Falcão, Gilberto Alves and Luís R Silva), In Int J Mol Sci, volume 23, 2022.
Bibtex Entry:
@article{Goncalves:2022aa,
abstract = {In recent years, many efforts have been made to identify micronutrients or nutritional strategies capable of preventing, or at least, attenuating, exercise-induced muscle damage and oxidative stress, and improving athlete performance. The reason is that most exercises induce various changes in mitochondria and cellular cytosol that lead to the generation of reactive species and free radicals whose accumulation can be harmful to human health. Among them, supplementation with phenolic compounds seems to be a promising approach since their chemical structure, composed of catechol, pyrogallol, and methoxy groups, gives them remarkable health-promoting properties, such as the ability to suppress inflammatory processes, counteract oxidative damage, boost the immune system, and thus, reduce muscle soreness and accelerate recovery. Phenolic compounds have also already been shown to be effective in improving temporal performance and reducing psychological stress and fatigue. Therefore, the aim of this review is to summarize and discuss the current knowledge on the effects of dietary phenolics on physical performance and recovery in athletes and sports practitioners. Overall, the reports show that phenolics exert important benefits on exercise-induced muscle damage as well as play a biological/physiological role in improving physical performance.},
address = {CICS-UBI-Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, 6201-506 Covilh{\~a}, Portugal.; CIBIT-Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research, University of Coimbra, 3000-548 Coimbra, Portugal.; Department of Sport Sciences, University of Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilh{\~a}, Portugal.; CICS-UBI-Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, 6201-506 Covilh{\~a}, Portugal.; CIBIT-Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research, University of Coimbra, 3000-548 Coimbra, Portugal.; Laboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, 3000-548 Coimbra, Portugal.; CICS-UBI-Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, 6201-506 Covilh{\~a}, Portugal.; CICS-UBI-Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, 6201-506 Covilh{\~a}, Portugal.; CPIRN-UDI/IPG-Center of Potential and Innovation of Natural Resources, Research Unit for Inland Development (UDI), Polytechnic Institute of Guarda, 6300-559 Guarda, Portugal.},
auid = {ORCID: 0000-0001-7795-795X; ORCID: 0000-0003-2200-4400; ORCID: 0000-0002-3854-6549; ORCID: 0000-0002-4213-0714; ORCID: 0000-0001-5264-3516},
author = {Gon{\c c}alves, Ana C and Gaspar, D{\'a}rio and Flores-F{\'e}lix, Jos{\'e}David and Falc{\~a}o, Am{\'\i}lcar and Alves, Gilberto and Silva, Lu{\'\i}s R},
cois = {The authors declare no conflict of interest.},
crdt = {2022/05/14 01:03},
date = {2022 Apr 22},
date-added = {2023-07-02 17:58:22 +0100},
date-modified = {2023-07-12 19:18:22 +0100},
dcom = {20220517},
dep = {20220422},
doi = {10.3390/ijms23094652},
edat = {2022/05/15 06:00},
gr = {2020.04947.BD/Funda{\c c}{\~a}o para a Ci{\^e}ncia e Tecnologia/; 101003373/Maria Curie-Sk{\l}odowska University/},
issn = {1422-0067 (Electronic); 1422-0067 (Linking)},
jid = {101092791},
journal = {Int J Mol Sci},
jt = {International journal of molecular sciences},
keywords = {Athletic Performance},
language = {eng},
lid = {10.3390/ijms23094652 {$[$}doi{$]$}; 4652},
lr = {20220716},
mh = {Athletes; *Athletic Performance/physiology; *Dietary Supplements; Exercise/physiology; Humans; Myalgia},
mhda = {2022/05/18 06:00},
month = {Apr},
number = {9},
oto = {NOTNLM},
own = {NLM},
phst = {2022/03/26 00:00 {$[$}received{$]$}; 2022/04/19 00:00 {$[$}revised{$]$}; 2022/04/20 00:00 {$[$}accepted{$]$}; 2022/05/14 01:03 {$[$}entrez{$]$}; 2022/05/15 06:00 {$[$}pubmed{$]$}; 2022/05/18 06:00 {$[$}medline{$]$}},
pii = {ijms23094652; ijms-23-04652},
pl = {Switzerland},
pmc = {PMC9102074},
pmid = {35563043},
pst = {epublish},
pt = {Journal Article; Review},
sb = {IM},
status = {MEDLINE},
title = {Effects of Functional Phenolics Dietary Supplementation on Athletes' Performance and Recovery: A Review.},
volume = {23},
year = {2022},
bdsk-url-1 = {https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23094652}}