Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jun 10;18(12):6294. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18126294.
Despite the steady increase in female participation in sport over the last two decades, comprehensive research on interventions attenuating the influence of female menstrual physiology on performance remains scarce. Studies involving eumenorrheic women often only test in one menstrual phase to limit sex hormone variance, which may restrict the application of these findings to the rest of the menstrual cycle. The impacts of nutrition-based interventions on athletic performance throughout the menstrual cycle have not been fully elucidated. We addressed this gap by conducting a focused critical review of clinical studies that reported athletic outcomes as well as menstrual status for healthy eumenorrheic female participants. In total, 1443 articles were identified, and 23 articles were included. These articles were published between 2011 and 2021, and were retrieved from Google Scholar, Medline, and PubMed. Our literature search revealed that hydration-, micronutrient-, and phytochemical-based interventions can improve athletic performance (measured by aerobic capacity, anaerobic power, and strength performance) or attenuate exercise-induced damage (measured by dehydration biomarkers, muscle soreness, and bone resorption biomarkers). Most performance trials, however, only assessed these interventions in one menstrual phase, limiting the application throughout the entire menstrual cycle. Improvements in athletic performance through nutrition-based interventions may be contingent upon female sex hormone variation in eumenorrheic women.
尽管在过去的二十年中,女性参与体育运动的人数稳步增加,但针对减轻女性生理周期对运动表现影响的干预措施的综合研究仍然很少。涉及月经规律女性的研究通常只在一个月经周期进行测试,以限制性激素的变化,这可能限制了这些发现在月经周期其余阶段的应用。营养干预措施对整个月经周期运动表现的影响尚未完全阐明。我们通过对报告运动结果和健康月经规律女性参与者月经状况的临床研究进行重点综述来解决这一差距。总共确定了 1443 篇文章,其中 23 篇被纳入。这些文章发表于 2011 年至 2021 年,从谷歌学术、医学文献在线数据库和 PubMed 检索获得。我们的文献检索显示,水合作用、微量营养素和植物化学物质干预可以改善运动表现(通过有氧能力、无氧能力和力量表现来衡量)或减轻运动引起的损伤(通过脱水生物标志物、肌肉酸痛和骨吸收生物标志物来衡量)。然而,大多数性能试验仅在一个月经周期评估这些干预措施,限制了其在整个月经周期的应用。通过营养干预措施提高运动表现可能取决于月经规律女性的雌性激素变化。