PapersPMID:20402569
L-tryptophan supplementation can decrease fatigue perception during an aerobic exercise with supramaximal intercalated anaerobic bouts in young healthy men.
- findings
- 2
- compound
- 1
- endpoints
- 2
- Study, every finding
- crossover · 20 participants
- Population, every finding
- Twenty healthy young sportsmen (mean age 21.2 years); double-blind crossover, cycle ergometer protocol of submaximal work with repeated 30 s maximal-intensity bouts
What moved
How to read these marks →“Peak power output, average anaerobic power output, and power output during the last 20 min of the trial were higher on the trials performed with L-tryptophan supplementation than on those performed with placebo.”
- Increases peak power output
very limited
- Increases mean power output
very limited
Study record
- Design
- crossover trial
- Species
- human
- Population
- Twenty healthy young sportsmen performing cycle ergometer exercise with and without L-tryptophan, random order, double-blind
- Participants
- 20
- Comparator
- placebo
- Duration
- not reported
- Endpoints measured
- 4