Female Athletes

For Wild.AI users, female is the default gender

04-Mar-2024 By Danielle Masterson

Hélène Guillaume launched Wild.AI in 2017 to track the various life stages and fitness levels women experience. The company applies the science of female physiology to active women to help them train, recover and supplement based on their cycle.

Optimal caffeine dose for performance in female team-sport athletes: Study

28-Feb-2024 By Olivia Haslam

A moderate caffeine dose is most effective for boosting high-intensity physical performance in young female team sports athletes, without the side effects, according to a new study.

Myprotein: Breaking stereotypes and empowering women in sports nutrition

20-Feb-2024 By Olivia Haslam

A significant number of women still do not perceive sports nutrition as essential for their fitness goals, a persisting misconception that The Hut Group (THG), owner of supplement brand Myprotein, is working to dispel.

Gencor aims to ‘even the playing field’ with solutions for female athletes

05-Feb-2024 By Olivia Haslam

Researching women's health is like "opening a can of worms" but is imperative for equality in sports and nutrition, says Mariko Hill, global innovations manager at Gencor.

Wild.AI’s Helene Guillaume prepares to take SANS stage

18-Jan-2024 By Danielle Masterson

With various life stages and fitness levels, the extra layers women come with can make for a challenge—and Wild.AI is tackling it head on.

Caffeine improves performance indicators in female volleyball athletes

04-Jan-2024 By Olivia Haslam

Caffeine increases countermovement jump (CMJ), reactive strength index (RSI) and handgrip in semi-professional women’s volleyball players, a new study has concluded.

NutraCast: Nutritional Concerns of the Female Athlete

01-Sep-2023 By Danielle Masterson

Although women have been underrepresented in nutrition, sport, and exercise science research, there’s a growing understanding of how sex differences and sex hormones influence the nutritional requirements to maximize health, performance, and recovery...

Q&A: Levelle Nutrition on fueling women to run the world

16-Jan-2023 By Asia Sherman

Levelle Nutrition, founded by Linda Alvarez and Stephanie Schrauth, is on a mission to empower female athletes with fuel formulated for their physiology. With sex-specific nutrition understudied in clinical trial and overlooked in product formulations,...

Women's Health

How are sports nutrition brands catering to the female athlete?

15-Dec-2022 By Nikki Hancocks

Female focused sports nutrition (SN) brands are successfully bringing taboo health challenges out from under the table but those looking to cater to female athletes should harness technology to provide the power of knowledge, says an industry expert....

Levelle, ING2, and Bella Grace Global announced as 2023 Start-up Stars

14-Dec-2022 By Stephen Daniells

NutraIngredients-USA is pleased to announce Bella Grace Global, ING2, and Levelle as our 2023 Start-up Stars for our upcoming Sports & Active Nutrition Summit (February 15-17, 2023).

NutraCast: Meeting nutritional demands of female athletes

18-Nov-2022 By Danielle Masterson

For many years, female athletes were forced to follow training, injury guidelines and nutrition plans based on research conducted on men. But is that starting to change?

Sports nutrition supplementation for the active female: “We need data to support any claims”

21-Sep-2022 By Asia Sherman

Despite the growing understanding that women are not small men attracted to pink packaging, sports nutrition experts say that a gap remains to address the true needs of the athletic woman.

Meta-analysis finds over 99% of athlete research methodology disregards female physiology

28-Mar-2022 By Danielle Masterson

A recent study examined trials conducted since 1975 and assessed whether supplements identified by experts as evidence-based products that increase performance for female athletes are actually supported by adequate methodological design.

Getting the science right for women in sports nutrition

05-Jan-2022 By Hank Schultz

There is still a dearth of nutrition science specific to the needs of female athletes and active nutrition consumers, but the picture is slowly improving, said one of the pioneers in the field.

Prebiotics may improve bone health in female athletes: Study

02-Jul-2021 By Stephen Daniells

Twelve weeks of consuming an inulin and lactulose-fortified prebiotic food may boost Bifidobacterium levels in the gut and suppress markers of bone resorption in female athletes, says a new study from Japan.

Mariko Hill on the role of women in sports nutrition

08-Mar-2021 By Danielle Masterson

From the cricket field to the board room, Gencor’s Mariko Hill shares her insight on gaps and opportunities in sports nutrition.

Synbiotic may boost response to iron supplementation in female athletes: Study

03-Mar-2021 By Stephen Daniells

A combination of Taiyo’s Sunfiber and IFF’s Bifidobacterium lactis BL-04 may boost iron stores in training female athletes taking low-dose iron supplements, according to a study using the Regular Girl consumer product.

Research, education, marketing highlight discussion 'White Spaces' event

01-Mar-2021 By Danielle Masterson

Experts from all walks of the sports nutrition industry talked about how to best approach white space categories, where the opportunities still are, and what brands need to know, during the final segment of the Sports & Active Nutrition Summit USA...

Are you ready for ‘White spaces’?

22-Feb-2021 By Danielle Masterson

By now you’ve seen The Changing Retail Landscape for Sports Nutrition, The Opportunity of the Microbiome, Recovery, and now it’s time for White Spaces in Sports & Active Nutrition.

The global phenomenon of esports—and the sexism that comes with it

18-Feb-2021 By Danielle Masterson

While esports is the only professional sport in the world where the teams can be comprised of both males and females, it doesn’t mean everyone is okay with that.

Calorie-restricting female runners at risk of lifelong bone issues, study finds

25-Jan-2021 By Hank Schultz

A recent study found that adolescent female runners who were consciously trying to restrict calories to achieve a certain body weight were at risk of osteoporosis and other problems.

NutraCast Podcast: Bodybuilding.com on the untapped potential of female sports nutrition

26-Jun-2020 By Danielle Masterson

Today’s NutraCast examines the sports nutrition world from a female lens and asks the question: “Do brands truly understand the needs of female athletes?”

Exploring nutritional risks among female athletes: Study

08-Jun-2020 By Danielle Masterson

Nutrition is key in an athlete's health and performance, with a variety of individual macronutrient and micronutrient needs based factors such as gender, age, and the type of the sport they’re involved in.

Sports Nutrition Summit 2020

Dr. Susan Kleiner on the female athlete: 'They should be shown grunting, sweating'

25-Feb-2020 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Sports nutrition marketing of the female athlete has come a long way as the industry embraces representing her as strong and powerful image rather than skinny and sexy, says Dr. Susan Kleiner, founder of High Performance Nutrition, and director of science...

Lifelong workouts benefit aging muscles in female athletes: Study

10-Jan-2020 By Danielle Masterson

In just over two years, Title IX will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Since the landmark gender-equity law was passed, the number of girls playing high school sports has grown from 294,000 in 1971, to over 3 million in recent years.