Official guidance & reports
Energy availability, recovery and athlete health
2023 International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) consensus statement on Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs)
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What this source adds
Prolonged or severe under-fueling can impair multiple body systems and performance.
Keep these limits in view
Clinical assessment requires context and exclusion of other causes. Neither a fasting duration nor one symptom diagnoses REDs.
Understand the context
- Evidence type
- Expert consensus informed by athlete research
- Population or scope
- Female and male athletes
- Comparison
- Consensus synthesis, not a randomized comparison of fasting schedules.
- Measured outcomes
- Health and performance consequences of problematic low energy availability.