The Effects Of Dairy Consumption On Bone, Inflammatory, Antioxidant & Metabolic Biomarker Responses To Exercise Or Nutritional Stressors In Humans

Abstract

The overall purpose of this dissertation was to examine the impact of dairy product consumption on outcomes of bone, inflammation, antioxidant & metabolic biomarkers both at rest (Chapter 5) and after exposure to different physiological stressors, including exercise (Chapter 3 & 4) and a high-calorie, high-fat meal (Chapter 6). To achieve this, two human intervention studies (divided into 4 papers) that used different stressors in combination with dairy product consumption were conducted. The collective findings indicate that increased dairy product consumption may confer some benefits to post-exercise bone remodeling and basal circulating inflammatory concentrations but does not have a significant effect on postprandial inflammatory, metabolic or glutathione responses. Therefore, including dairy products as part of a balanced diet could have minor beneficial effects if consumed following impact exercise and/or to potentially ameliorate resting low-grade chronic inflammation in people that may be at higher risk of developing metabolic disease.