Michelle Coutiño Díaz, Arnold Prieto Martínez, Reza Zare, Ali Ali Redha, Scott C Forbes
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Abstract
Background: Wrestling is a popular combat sport that requires muscular strength, power, agility, and endurance. Weight classes have motivated wrestlers to compete at a lower weight to optimise power-to-weight ratio and performance. To achieve these characteristics, athletes may use dietary supplements, however, their efficacy in wrestlers has not been systematically evaluated.
Objective: The purpose was to systematically review the literature to determine the efficacy of dietary supplements to improve body composition, physiological status, and performance in wrestlers.
Methods: A systematic search was conducted in PubMed, ProQuest Medline, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Scopus on the 21st of January 2024 and updated on the 6th of January 2025. Studies were included if the participants were healthy wrestlers ingesting any type of dietary supplement in comparison to a control. Data associated with intervention type and characteristics, target populations, outcomes, and analysis methods were extracted.
Results: A total of 24 eligible original articles were included that assessed various supplementation strategies on body composition, exercise performance, and metabolic markers in wrestlers. Individual studies revealed significant effects of sodium citrate, creatine monohydrate, spirulina, green tea and oolong tea extracts, and branched-chain amino acids on body mass or composition. β-Hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMB-FA), creatine monohydrate, and iron supplementation improved recovery and may improve exercise performance. Beet-root juice supplementation enhanced muscular strength and balance. BCAA supplementation produced mixed results on muscle damage biomarkers and performance, while sodium citrate, creatine, and spirulina can act as buffering agents. Thyme tea appears to improve antioxidant capacity.
Conclusions: Overall, individual studies show some promise for several dietary supplements to alter body mass and body composition, improve exercise recovery and performance, delay fatigue, and modify serum biomarkers; nevertheless, effect sizes were often small, and results were often mixed.
背景：摔跤是一项流行的格斗运动，需要肌肉力量、力量、敏捷和耐力。体重等级促使摔跤运动员在较低的体重下比赛，以优化力量重量比和表现。为了达到这些特点，运动员可能会使用膳食补充剂，然而，它们在摔跤运动员中的功效尚未得到系统的评估。目的：目的是系统地回顾文献，以确定膳食补充剂对改善摔跤运动员身体成分、生理状态和表现的功效。方法：系统检索2024年1月21日更新于2025年1月6日的PubMed、ProQuest Medline、Web of Science、Cochrane Library和Scopus。如果参与者是健康的摔跤运动员，摄入任何类型的膳食补充剂，与对照组进行比较，研究就包括在内。提取与干预类型和特征、目标人群、结果和分析方法相关的数据。结果：共纳入了24篇符合条件的原创文章，评估了摔跤运动员的身体组成、运动表现和代谢指标的各种补充策略。个别研究表明，柠檬酸钠、一水肌酸、螺旋藻、绿茶和乌龙茶提取物以及支链氨基酸对体重或身体成分有显著影响。β-羟基-β-甲基丁酸盐（HMB-FA）、一水肌酸和铁补充剂可以改善恢复，并可能改善运动表现。甜菜根汁补充增强肌肉力量和平衡。补充支链氨基酸对肌肉损伤生物标志物和性能产生了不同的结果，而柠檬酸钠、肌酸和螺旋藻可以作为缓冲剂。百里香茶似乎能提高抗氧化能力。结论：总体而言，个别研究表明，几种膳食补充剂在改变体重和身体成分、改善运动恢复和表现、延缓疲劳和改变血清生物标志物方面有一定的前景；然而，效应量往往很小，结果往往是混合的。
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This journal aims to provide comprehensive review articles that emphasize significant developments in nutrition research emerging in recent publications. By presenting clear, insightful, balanced contributions by international experts, the journal intends to discuss the influence of nutrition on major health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and obesity, as well as the impact of nutrition on genetics, metabolic function, and public health. We accomplish this aim by appointing international authorities to serve as Section Editors in key subject areas across the field. Section Editors select topics for which leading experts contribute comprehensive review articles that emphasize new developments and recently published papers of major importance, highlighted by annotated reference lists. We also provide commentaries from well-known figures in the field, and an Editorial Board of more than 25 internationally diverse members reviews the annual table of contents, suggests topics of special importance to their country/region, and ensures that topics and current and include emerging research.
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