More Research Is Necessary to Establish the Ergogenic Effect of Caffeine in Female Athletes
Dear Editor-in-Chief, Today, there is a significant gap in research on the ergogenicity of caffeine, and on sports nutrition in general: the benefits/drawbacks for a given substance are typically assumed for the whole population of athletes when most of the evidence is supported by investigations wi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC) |
| Repositorio: | Depósito Digital e-UCJC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ucjc.edu:20.500.12020/1465 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31311110/ http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12020/1465 https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11071600 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte Ergogenic Effect Caffeine Female Athletes 2411.06 Fisiología del Ejercicio |
| Sumario: | Dear Editor-in-Chief, Today, there is a significant gap in research on the ergogenicity of caffeine, and on sports nutrition in general: the benefits/drawbacks for a given substance are typically assumed for the whole population of athletes when most of the evidence is supported by investigations with only male samples. As a result of this assumption, acute pre-exercise ingestion of 3–9 mg/kg of caffeine is considered an effective strategy to increase sports performance [1], while data on urine caffeine concentration indicates that the use of caffeine in sport is similar in both sexes [2]. A few recent investigations using women as study samples, have also found that caffeine increases sports performance [3–6]. However, evidence regarding the overall ergogenicity of caffeine in women is much scarcer than in men, and it seems unsafe to conclude that the ergogenic effect of a moderate dose of caffeine is of similar magnitude in men and women. |
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