Department of Sports Dietetics

ResearcherID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5041-2981
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Krzysztof_Durkalec-Michalski

Main research interests:
Sports nutrition and supplementation – in particular beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyric acid (HMB), sodium bicarbonate, colostrum, caffeine and beta-alanine supplementation, as well as different nutritional interventions (e.g., ketogenic diet, glycemic index-based carbohydrate diets) and their influence on discipline-specific performance, aerobic, and anaerobic physical capacity, exercise metabolism and immunology, training activities, body composition and blood biochemical markers in trained athletes and active individuals; body mass regulation, rapid weight loss, and the fast nutritional recovery before competitions in combat sports and sport disciplines with weight categories.

ResearcherID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7724-022X
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paulina-Nowaczyk

Main research interest:
Sports dietetics, including nutritional and supplementation strategies in various sport disciplines and recreationally active individuals and their impact on physical capacity and performance, body mass and composition, energy metabolism and blood or saliva biochemical biomarkers. Studies on health potential of functional foods, as well as on the dietary patterns in relation to health outcomes.

Research projects:
Poland National Science Centre project Miniatura 5 entitled ‘The effect of caffeine and paraxantine kinetics on exercise performance and psychophysical state in athletes after ingestion of mono- or multi-ingredient caffeine-containing supplements’ (project number: 2021/05/X/NZ7/01179)