Sports Performance

Sports Performance Evidence Ranking

Within this category, verdicts with higher evidence scores appear first. Verdicts without a score stay lower in the same list.

• A 92 Creatine (creatine monohydrate) x Strength and exercise performance
  Across many double-blind human RCTs and meta-analyses, creatine monohydrate consistently improves direct measures such as 1RM and repeated-performa... · View verdict →
• A 88 Caffeine x Alertness and exercise performance
  Acute alertness/attention and exercise-performance effects of standalone caffeine are repeatedly positive in human RCTs and meta-analyses, but the... · View verdict →
• B 78 Whey protein (WPI/WPC) x Muscle and dieting
  Whey protein provides a small, consistent contribution to muscle/lean mass when resistance training and insufficient total protein are addressed, b... · View verdict →
• B 72 Beet (red beet, beetroot juice/powder; inorganic nitrate NO3-) x Blood pressure and exercise performance
  Beet nitrate has real RCT/meta-analytic evidence for systolic blood pressure and some exercise-performance measures, but the effect is small and de... · View verdict →
• C 56 Citrulline (L-citrulline, citrulline malate/malate) x Exercise performance and blood-flow/nitric-oxide-related support
  There is a small positive signal for high-intensity repetitions, but effects are small and aerobic/blood-flow evidence is inconsistent and surrogat... · View verdict →
• C 52 BCAA (branched-chain amino acids: leucine, isoleucine, valine) x Muscle and exercise (muscle mass/strength/exercise performance, post-exercise recovery and muscle soreness)
  BCAA has some meta-analytic signals for short-term recovery markers such as muscle soreness and CK, but improved muscle mass, strength, and exercis... · View verdict →
• C 49 Glutamine (L-glutamine) x Gut, exercise recovery, and immunity
  There are RCT signals for narrow gut symptoms such as IBS-D, but supplement claims bundling general gut health, exercise recovery, and immunity are... · View verdict →