Debasis Bagchi, PhD, MACN, CNS, MAIChE, received his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry in 1982. He is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Houston, College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX. He served as the Senior Vice President of Research & Development of InterHealth Nutraceuticals Incorporated in Benicia, CA, from 1998 till Feb 2011. Dr. Bagchi received the Master of American College of Nutrition Award in early October 2010. He is currently the Chairman of International Society of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods (ISNFF), Immediate Past President of American College of Nutrition, Clearwater, FL, and Past Chair of the Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods Division of Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), Chicago, IL. He is serving as a Distinguished Advisor on the Japanese Institute for Health Food Standards, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Bagchi is a Member of the Study Section and Peer Review Committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD. Dr. Bagchi has 295 papers in peer reviewed journals, 15 books and numerous patents. He has delivered invited lectures in various national and international scientific conferences, organized workshops, and group discussion sessions. Dr. Bagchi is also a Member of the Society of Toxicology, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Nutrition Research Academy, and Member of the TCE stakeholder Committee of the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH. Dr. Bagchi is the Associate Editors of the Journal of Functional Foods and the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, and also serving as Editorial Board Member of numerous peer reviewed journals, including Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, Cancer Letters, Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, The Original Internist, and others. Cepham Inc., Piscataway, NJ; Prof of Pharmacology, Univ of Wyoming Sch of Pharmacy, 1000 E. University Ave, Laramie, WY 82071 Dr. Sreejayan Nair is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wyoming. He is also serves as the Director of the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and the Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Research and Alternative Medicine at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Nair earned his PhD from the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal, Mangalore University, India in 1996, and underwent post-doctoral trainings at the Department of Medicine II, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany and at the Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN before joining the University of Wyoming in 2002 as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology. He has been funded by the American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, NIH and NASA. His research interest includes insulin signaling and cardiovascular disease. He has published over 50 research papers and has co-edited two books relating to diabetes and cardiovascular research. He also serves as the Director of the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and the Director of the Center of Cardiovascular Research and Alternative Medicine at the University of Wyoming. He has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and two published books. Dr. Chandan K Sen is a tenured Professor of Surgery, Executive Director of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Wound Center and Director of the Ohio State University's Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell Based Therapies. He is also the Associate Dean for Research at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. After completing his Masters of Science in Human Physiology from the University of Calcutta, Dr. Sen received his PhD in Physiology from the University of Kuopio in Finland. Dr. Sen trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley's Molecular and Cell Biology department. His first faculty appointment was in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. In fall of 2000, Dr. Sen moved to The Ohio State University where established a program on tissue injury and repair. Currently, Dr. Sen is a Professor and Vice Chair of Research of Surgery. Dr. Sen serves on the editorial board of numerous scientific journals. He is the Editor in Chief of Antioxidants & Redox Signaling(liebertpub.com/ars) with a current impact factor of 8.456. He is the Section Editor of microRNA of Physiological Genomics, a journal of the American Physiological Society. Dr. Sen and his team have published over 250 scientific publications. He has a H-index of 64 and is currently cited 2000 times every year.

Preface

This book is divided into five main themes. The introductory theme is a brief general overview of the role of nutrition in human health. The second section presents various types of physical exercises, including cardiovascular training, resistance training, aerobic and anaerobic exercises, bioenergetics and energy balance and the nutritional requirements associated with these various fitness programs as well as exercise and nutritional requirements in special populations, including the pre-pubertal, young, elderly and disabled. Section 3 focuses specifically on sports and nutritional requirements. The molecular mechanisms involved in muscle building are the theme of Section 4. Section 5 is an exhaustive review of various food, minerals, supplements, phytochemicals, amino acids, transition metals, small molecules and other ergogenic agents that have been implicated in muscle building and human performance.