Staff profile

Lindsay joined the staff at Durham in August 2020. Lindsay’s PhD, at the University of Stirling examined the relationship between protein feeding and lean mass. This work investigated whether the dose-response of protein to whole-body exercise was influenced by lean mass. Lindsay moved to Durham after spending four years working as a Performance Nutritionist at the sportscotland Institute of sport. She was part of a team supporting athletes and sports to perform on the world stage at World Championships, Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympic Games. Lindsay’s research interests are driven towards bringing sports nutrition research and applied practice closer together. Lindsay has a particular interest around to best support athletes' health and performance in relation to nutrition and metabolism and how body composition measurements are used in a sporting environment. She is currently working with international colleagues to address issues in practice around body composition monitoring in competitive sport.

• Sport Nutrition
• Body Composition
• Exercise Metabolism

Journal Article

• Mathisen, T. F., Ackland, T., Burke, L. M., Constantini, N., Haudum, J., Macnaughton, L. S., …Sundgot-Borgen, J. (2023). Best practice recommendations for body composition considerations in sport to reduce health and performance risks: a critical review, original survey and expert opinion by a subgroup of the IOC consensus on Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs). British Journal of Sports Medicine, 57(17), 1148-1160. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2023-106812
• Pearson, A. G., Hind, K., & Macnaughton, L. S. (2023). The impact of dietary protein supplementation on recovery from resistance exercise-induced muscle damage: A systematic review with meta-analysis. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 77, 767–783. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41430-022-01250-y
• Pearson, A. G., Macnaughton, L. S., & Hind, K. (2023). Milk protein ingestion does not enhance recovery from muscle-damaging resistance exercise in untrained males and females: a randomized controlled trial. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 48(6), 455-468. https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2022-0385
• Pearson, A. G., Macnaughton, L. S., & Hind, K. (2022). Sex differences in the impact of resistance exercise load on muscle damage: A protocol for a randomised parallel group trial. PLoS ONE, 17(9), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275221
• Wardle, S. L., Macnaughton, L. S., McGlory, C., Witard, O. C., Dick, J. R., Whitfield, P. D., …Galloway, S. D. (2020). Human skeletal muscle metabolic responses to 6 days of high‐fat overfeeding are associated with dietary n‐3PUFA content and muscle oxidative capacity. Physiological Reports, 8(16), Article e14529. https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.14529
• Jones, T. W., Smith, A., Macnaughton, L. S., & French, D. N. (2017). Variances in Strength and Conditioning Practice in Elite Rugby Union Between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 31(12), 3358-3371. https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000001773
• Jones, T. W., Smith, A., Macnaughton, L. S., & French, D. N. (2016). Strength and Conditioning and Concurrent Training Practices in Elite Rugby Union. The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 30(12), 3354-3366. https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000001445
• Macnaughton, L., Wardle, S., Witard, O., McGlory, C., Hamilton, D., Jeromson, S., …Tipton, K. (2016). The response of muscle protein synthesis following whole-body resistance exercise is greater following 40 g than 20 g of ingested whey protein. Physiological Reports, 4(15), Article e12893. https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.12893
• Witard, O., Wardle, S., Macnaughton, L., Hodgson, A., & Tipton, K. (2016). Protein considerations for optimising skeletal muscle mass in healthy young and older adults. Nutrients, 8(4), Article 181. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu8040181
• Mcglory, C., Wardle, S., Macnaughton, L., Witard, O., Scott, F., Dick, J., …Tipton, K. (2016). Fish oil supplementation suppresses resistance exercise and feeding-induced increases in anabolic signaling without affecting myofibrillar protein synthesis in young men. Physiological Reports, 4(6), Article e12715. https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.12715