Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2020
Caloric restriction induces anabolic resistance to resistance exercise.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Exercise-induced modulation of IGF-1 in healthy, obese, and cancer populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The Bone Biomarker Response to an Acute Bout of Exercise: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of High-Impact Exercise on Bone Marker Concentrations During Controlled Low Energy Availability in Recreational Female Runners.Calcified tissue international · 2026Trial
- Metabolic signature of short-term low energy availability.Physiological reports · 2025Trial
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- Fueling failure or fostering fusion? A critical review of the potential effect of ketogenic, intermittent fasting, and low-carbohydrate diets on dental implant osseointegration.The Saudi dental journal · 2026Review
- The effects of a home-based resistance training programme on body composition and muscle function during weight loss in people living with overweight or obesity: a randomised controlled pilot trial.Nutrition & metabolism · 2025Article
- Nutritional Considerations in Exercise-Based Heat Acclimation: A Narrative Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Review
- Assessment of entropy accumulation in human subjects when exposed to low energy availability.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Identifying and Analyzing Low Energy Availability in Athletes: The Role of Biomarkers and Red Blood Cell Turnover.Nutrients · 2024Review
- The Effects of Intermittent Diet Breaks during 25% Energy Restriction on Body Composition and Resting Metabolic Rate in Resistance-Trained Females: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of human kinetics · 2023Article
- The effects of popular diets on bone health in the past decade: a narrative review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Review
- Intermittent fasting and continuous energy restriction result in similar changes in body composition and muscle strength when combined with a 12 week resistance training program.European journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- Lean mass sparing in resistance-trained athletes during caloric restriction: the role of resistance training volume.European journal of applied physiology · 2022Review
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- Low energy availability: history, definition and evidence of its endocrine, metabolic and physiological effects in prospective studies in females and males.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Review
- The Role of Long-Term Head-Down Bed Rest in Understanding Inter-Individual Variation in Response to the Spaceflight Environment: A Perspective Review.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Links Between Testosterone, Oestrogen, and the Growth Hormone/Insulin-Like Growth Factor Axis and Resistance Exercise Muscle Adaptations.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Review
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
purposeWeight loss can result in the loss of muscle mass and bone mineral density. Resistance exercise is commonly prescribed to attenuate these effects. However, the anabolic endocrine response to resistance exercise during caloric restriction has not been characterized.
methodsParticipants underwent 3-day conditions of caloric restriction (15 kcal kg FFM
resultsIn CRC and CRP, respectively, growth hormone peaked at 2.6 ± 0.4 and 2.5 ± 0.9 times the peak concentrations observed during CON. Despite this, insulin-like growth factor-1 concentrations declined 18.3 ± 3.4% in CRC and 27.2 ± 3.8% in CRP, which was greater than the 7.6 ± 3.6% decline in CON, over the subsequent 24 h. Sclerostin increased over the first 2 days of each intervention by 19.2 ± 5.6% in CRC, 21.8 ± 6.2% in CRP and 13.4 ± 5.9% in CON, but following the resistance exercise bout, these increases were attenuated and no longer significant.
conclusionDuring caloric restriction, there is considerable endocrine anabolic resistance to a single bout of resistance exercise which persists in the presence of post-exercise whey protein supplementation. Alternative strategies to restore the sensitivity of insulin-like growth factor-1 to growth hormone need to be explored.
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