Dear Colleagues,

Human performance addresses a broad spectrum of conditions, from increasing cognitive abilities, fighting disease or to enhancing athletic performance. Thus, tools have been constantly sought to improve and optimize human capabilities, including supplementation and nutrition.

Nowadays, food and nutritional strategies become more important for the care of people who want to optimize their psychological and physical performance, as well as for those who want to maintain a healthy lifestyle, being the nutritional management fundamental to maximize it. Optimizing the diet, both natural and supplemented, may have beneficial effects on health markers, as well as responses for sports and cognitive performance. Consequently, the trend to investigate these supplements and different nutritional strategies seem important to advance in the knowledge of the effects on performance along with different physiological variables.

Different dietary strategies and ergogenic aids may be effective for the study of human performance benefits: caffeine, creatine, carnosine, BCAA, protein or diets high in fats, carbohydrates or proteins, vegan or vegetarian diets... Therefore, this special issue will accept original research articles, reviews and meta-analyses. Researching areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the use of sports supplementation or effects of nutrition on human performance or disease control.

Validation studies of different instruments for the measurement of human performance.

Original studies with experimental designs using nutrition or supplementation for the improvement of human performance, such as cognitive, sport, or health improvement.

Mini-reviews of sports supplementation or nutritional strategies.

Developing specific cases to your own health benefit.

Dr. Carlos Ruiz-Moreno
Guest Editor

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• caffeine
• creatine
• p-Synephrine
• Beta-alanine
• dietary strategies
• metabolism
• fat oxidation
• carbohydrate oxidation
• body composition
• microbiote
• healthcare
• supplements
• ergogenic aids
• sport performance
• cognitive performance
• carbohydrates
• lipds
• proteins
• vegan
• vegetarian