A life history perspective on athletes with low energy availability

MK Shirley, DP Longman, KJ Elliott-Sale, AC Hackney… - Sports Medicine, 2022 - Springer
The energy costs of athletic training can be substantial, and deficits arising from costs unmet
by adequate energy intake, leading to a state of low energy availability, may adversely …

Pitfalls of conducting and interpreting estimates of energy availability in free-living athletes

LM Burke, B Lundy… - … journal of sport …, 2018 - journals.humankinetics.com
The human body requires energy for numerous functions including, growth, thermogenesis,
reproduction, cellular maintenance, and movement. In sports nutrition, energy availability …

Energy constraint and compensation: Insights from endurance athletes

E Dolan, K Koehler, J Areta, DP Longman… - … and Physiology Part A …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Constrained Model of Total Energy Expenditure predicts that increased
physical activity may not influence total energy expenditure, but instead, induces …

[HTML][HTML] Energy availability in athletics: health, performance, and physique

AK Melin, IA Heikura, A Tenforde… - … journal of sport …, 2019 - journals.humankinetics.com
The reported prevalence of low energy availability (LEA) in female and male track and field
athletes is between 18% and 58% with the highest prevalence among athletes in endurance …

The path towards progress: a critical review to advance the science of the female and male athlete triad and relative energy deficiency in sport

MJ De Souza, NCA Strock, EA Ricker, KJ Koltun… - Sports Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Energy status plays a key role in the health of athletes and exercising individuals. Energy
deficiency/low energy availability (EA), referring to a state in which insufficient energy intake …

Constrained total energy expenditure and the evolutionary biology of energy balance

H Pontzer - Exercise and sport sciences reviews, 2015 - journals.lww.com
The human body adapts dynamically to maintain total energy expenditure (TEE) within a
narrow physiological range. Rather than increasing with physical activity in a dose …

Energy balance and energy availability

AB Loucks - The encyclopaedia of sports medicine: An IOC …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter discusses the most general nutritional requirement affecting an athlete's body
mass, composition, and fuel stores, namely energy. Necessarily, this discussion of energy …

Energy availability in athletes

AB Loucks, B Kiens, HH Wright - Food, Nutrition and Sports …, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
This review updates and complements the review of energy balance and body composition
in the Proceedings of the 2003 IOC Consensus Conference on Sports Nutrition. It argues …

Endocrine and metabolic repercussions of relative energy deficiency in sport

LM McCall, KE Ackerman - Current Opinion in Endocrine and Metabolic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Low energy availability (EA), caused by insufficient caloric intake for daily energy
expenditure, is detrimental to an athlete's performance and long-term health. Male and …

[HTML][HTML] Low energy availability: history, definition and evidence of its endocrine, metabolic and physiological effects in prospective studies in females and males

JL Areta, HL Taylor, K Koehler - European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2021 - Springer
Energy availability (EA) is defined as the amount of dietary energy available to sustain
physiological function after subtracting the energetic cost of exercise. Insufficient EA due to …