Energy availability with José Areta, PhD | EP#378

José Arteta, PhD, is a lecturer at the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University. His primary interest is in the area of training-nutrition interactions in humans, including energy availability and low energy availability specifically, which is the main topic of today's interview.    

IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:

-What is energy availability, and how is it different from energy balance? 

-What is considered low energy availability? 

-Symptoms and consequences of low energy availability 

-The uncertainty around measuring energy availability in the field, and difficulties with interpreting it

-Diagnosis, detection and treatment of low energy availability

-Sex differences in low energy availability

-Weight loss and low energy availability

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LINKS AND RESOURCES:

• José's profiles on Research Gate and Twitter

• Low energy availability: history, definition and evidence of its endocrine, metabolic and physiological effects in prospective studies in females and males - Arteta et al. 2021

• Patterns of energy availability of free-living athletes display day-to-day variability that is not reflected in laboratory-based protocols: Insights from elite male road cyclists - Taylor et al. 2022

• LEAF-Q (Low Energy Availability in Females Questionnaire)

• LEAM-Q (Low Energy Availability in Males Questionnaire)

• RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports) with Margo Mountjoy | EP#233

• IOC consensus statement on relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S) - Mountjoy et al. 2018

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