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Article: Novel Ingredients for sports nutrition products: ingredients play a key role in products to help athletes gain endurance, strength and maintain health. Beta-alanine, amino acids, starch, antioxidants, L-carnitine, fenugreek L-theanine, phosphatidylserine and others are available to make formulas targeted to serious and competitive athletes.(NUTRA solutions)
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Despite a shaky economy, properly marketed and targeted sports nutrition and energy products are still selling (1), and scientists are churning out research on many novel ingredients and finding new applications for existing ones. Recent research also has helped develop specific categories within sports nutrition, including products targeted to enhance recovery and minimize muscle soreness, as well as sports-specific products for sports not typically associated with nutrition-specific supplements (golf, for instance).
Recovery is a hot topic among scientists jockeying to find ingredients that will buffer physiological processes that contribute to fatigue, enhance ...
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