Impact of cow’s milk intake on exercise performance and recovery of muscle function: a systematic review Alcántara Alcántara, Juan Manuel Sánchez-Delgado, Guillermo Martínez Téllez, Borja Manuel Labayen, Idoia Ruiz Ruiz, Jonatan Dairy products Muscle damage Muscle recovery Resistance training Endurance training Dairy products are thought to improve recovery after both resistance and endurance exercises due to their nutritional proprieties. We systematically reviewed the effects of dairy product intake on exercise performance and recovery of muscle function in humans. A literature search was conducted in the MEDLINE (via PubMed) and Web of Science databases from their inception to 15th April 2018. The initial search retrieved 7708 articles, and a total of 11 studies were finally included after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria. All the selected studies were conducted with cow’s milk. Whereas some studies found significant positive effect of cow’s milk on exercise performance and recovery of muscle function, others did not find any effect. These controversies could be due to the heterogeneity of cow’s milk ingestion (e.g., amount of cow’s milk, timing of consuming the cow’s milk), to the type of intervention, and to the large heterogeneity of outcomes measured. Limited studies exist examining the effects of cow’s milk consumption and its influence on exercise performance and recovery of muscle function, therefore further studies are needed to draw more definitive conclusions. 2020-03-06T11:13:25Z 2020-03-06T11:13:25Z 2019 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Alcantara, J. M., Sanchez-Delgado, G., Martinez-Tellez, B., Labayen, I., & Ruiz, J. R. (2019). Impact of cow’s milk intake on exercise performance and recovery of muscle function: a systematic review. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 16(1), 22. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/60081 10.1186/s12970-019-0288-5 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Springer Nature