Biologically active additives (BAA) are presently considered an indispensable part of any sport diet and training system. However, choosing a right mix of healthy and efficient BAA and their administration is never easy due to the widest range of products on the market and still limited knowledge of the metabolic processes and effects and their control tools. The article was intended to overview a range of ergogenic additives from among the most studied and popular in the modern sports plus the most promising for the competitive performance and progress. The study data gives the grounds to conclude that, in spite of the growing research of the sport diets, many issues still need to be explored to further improve the competitive performance. One of such issues is whether or not findings of the BAA application experiments with rodents may be directly applied to humans on the whole and athletes in particular. In addition, it is not clear if findings of the experiments involving the basically-skilled athletes may be directly applied to the elite ones.
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