CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Bélgica
graduation at Sport Science and Mathematics from Nottingham Trent University (2007) and doctorate at Sports Nutrition from Nottingham Trent University (2012). Has experience in Fitness, focusing on Fitness (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Ergogenic aids are nutritional supplements predominantly directed towards enhancing exercise capacity and performance, although they may also provide health related benefits. Sodium bicarbonate and caffeine have become essential training additions for elite, professional and recreational athletes alike and their efficacy in improving exercise capacity and performance is supported by subst…
Historically in research, placebos have been used as a control treatment that is indistinguishable from the active intervention but has no active component. This allows the intervention arm to be compared to the non-active placebo treatment which, theoretically, should allow determination of the "true" effect of the intervention, through reducing the potential that expectancy, or belief, …
One factor that may be responsible for the high individual variability seen in response to supplementation on exercise performance is the placebo effect, which is defined as a positive response to an inert treatment with no specific therapeutic properties. Psychological, social, expectancy, cognitive learning and genetic factors can generate larger or smaller placebos effects in several p…
Ergogenic aids are nutritional supplements predominantly directed towards enhancing exercise capacity and performance, although they may else provide health related benefits. Sodium bicarbonate, caffeine and β-alanine have become essential training additions for elite, professional and recreational athletes alike and their efficacy in improving exercise capacity and performance is support…
Carnosine is a cytoplasmic dipeptide found in high concentrations in the skeletal muscle of both vertebrates and non-vertebrates, and is associated with muscle buffering, sensitivity of calcium release channels and/or calcium sensitivity of the contractile apparatus and scavenging of reactive oxygen species. It has been shown that the elevation of muscle carnosine concentrations through t…
Beta-alanine is an amino acid which, when bound to histidine, forms a dipeptide called carnosine (²-alanyl-L-Histidine). Beta-alanine has strong evidence as an ergogenic aid, and it is well established that through the increase of muscle carnosine content, intracellular H+ buffering capacity is increased, due to the acid dissociation constant of its imidazole ring (pKa = 6.83), which make…
Caffeine is the most consumed psychoactive substance in the world. Its properties are valuable in sports, since it acts as an adenosine receptor antagonist, increasing the noradrenaline and dopamine release of the central nervous system, reducing perceived exertion and pain and reducing fatigue. Despite its beneficial effects, some people appear not to benefit from caffeine supplementatio…
Caffeine is one of most consumed psychostimulant substances in the world and in many sports it is used as an ergogenic aid by athletes and non-athletes. There is substantial evidence showing increased muscular resistance, strength, anaerobic power and aerobic resistance across many sports. We can definitely say that caffeine ingestion is inherent in modern society, and athletes are the bi…
The objective of this project is to investigate the ergogenic effects of trehalose supplementation throughout prolonged cycling in trained cyclists. Acting as controls, we will use a conventional placebo (sweetener), maltodextrin (carbohydrate with high glycaemic index) and isomaltose (carbohydrate with low glycaemic index), these two being considered as positive controls. Our hypothesis …
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Caffeine, an adenosine receptors antagonist, has well known effects on the central nervous system and has been used as an ergogenic aid to improve cognition for centuries and more recently as a sports supplement. However, a few factors have been described as moderators of its effects, especially genetic factors. A single nucleotide polymorphism on the CYP1A2 gene has been proposed to be r…
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