Metabolomics:A Novel Tool for Sports and Exercise Science

Metabolomics is a systems biology approach which enables the assessment of holistic responses of the body to sports and exercise perturbation.Recently,metabolomics has been applied in exploring metabolic changes or metabolic adaptation induced by sports,exercise training and other related intervention such as sports nutrition intervention and doping,and it offers fresh insight into sports and exercise science.Given the importance of this new tool,this paper?provides a comprehensive over-view of the existing evidence about the research of metabolomics in sports and exercise science,presents the current progress and main findings,point out limitations of such a strategy,as well as look into some prospects for the future.