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3 . 2020

Exploiting dietary supplements with antioxidant properties for enhancing physical efficiency at the state of physical fatigue in sports

Abstract

The aim of the review was to analyze the current scientific data concerning the dietary supplements (DS) with antioxidant activity to be recommended for using in order to improve physical performance in professional athletes experiencing fatigue.

Material and methods. Online publications reviewing has been performed using the PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar databases, eLibrary platform, Cyberleninka. Results. Maintaining an athlete organism various systems functioning at the optimum level is known to be represented enough effective only with application of dietary supplements. The results of comprehensive up-to-date foreign and domestic scientific researches concerning dietary supplements including components with antioxidant activity to be recommended for delaying fatigue onset and improving physical performance in athletes have been analyzed. Application of such dietary supplements is dictated by the necessity to increase antioxidant organism defense, to maintain the normal functioning of a number of enzymes and prevent oxidative stress. The effectiveness of dietary supplements containing such components as vitamins E, A, and C; selenium, succinic and alpha-lipoic acid, coenzyme Q10, glutathione and other natural sources of antioxidants have been discussed in the review. The analysis of the data presented in the current scientific literature have confirmed the urgency of additional researches with the aim of receiving sufficient pieces of evidences of effectiveness of a number of dietary supplements with antioxidant activity in physical fatigue.

Conclusion. For postponing fatigue and improving physical efficiency in sports there appear to be reasonable to use dietary supplements possessing antioxidant properties with effectiveness confirmed by scientific researches.

Keywords:dietary supplements, fatigue, physical efficiency, antioxidants, athletes

Funding. The study was not sponsored.

Conflict of interests. The authors declare no conflict of interests.

For citation: Kornyakova V.V., Badtieva V.A., Balandin M.Yu. Exploiting dietary supplements with antioxidant properties for enhancing physical efficiency at the state of physical fatigue in sports. Voprosy pitaniia [Problems of Nutrition]. 2020; 89 (3): 86-96. DOI: 10.24411/0042-8833-2020-10032 (in Russian)

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