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2026

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137
Citations
57281
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1920
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Timothy D. Noakes is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine, with substantial contributions in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Subfields of study include Physiology, Cell Biology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Their work covers a variety of topics within diet and metabolism studies, muscle metabolism and nutrition, sports performance and training, adipose tissue and metabolism, cardiovascular and exercise physiology, exercise and physiological responses, as well as metabolism, diabetes, and cancer.

Notable recent papers by Timothy D. Noakes include:

  • What Is the Evidence That Dietary Macronutrient Composition Influences Exercise Performance? A Narrative Review (2022, Nutrients)
  • Low carbohydrate high fat ketogenic diets on the exercise crossover point and glucose homeostasis (2023, Frontiers in Physiology)

Other relevant recent publications connected to their research area involve:

  • Reduced Glucose Tolerance and Skeletal Muscle GLUT4 and IRS1 Content in Cyclists Habituated to a Long-Term Low-Carbohydrate, High-Fat Diet (2020, International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism)
  • Low and high carbohydrate isocaloric diets on performance, fat oxidation, glucose and cardiometabolic health in middle age males (2023, Frontiers in Nutrition)
  • The Effects of Carbohydrate versus Fat Restriction on Lipid Profiles in Highly Trained, Recreational Distance Runners: A Randomized, Cross-Over Trial (2022, Nutrients)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Timothy D. Noakes include Philip Prins, Dominic P. D'Agostino, Jeff S. Volek, Alex Buga, and Jeffrey D. Buxton.

Their research has been published repeatedly in key venues such as Frontiers in Nutrition, International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Nutrients, and Frontiers in Physiology.

Best Publications

  • Physiological models to understand exercise fatigue and the adaptations that predict or enhance athletic performance

    T. D. Noakes

  • Lore of Running

    Timothy D. Noakes

  • From catastrophe to complexity: a novel model of integrative central neural regulation of effort and fatigue during exercise in humans: summary and conclusions

    Timothy David Noakes;A. St Clair Gibson;E. V. Lambert

  • Evidence for complex system integration and dynamic neural regulation of skeletal muscle recruitment during exercise in humans

    A St Clair Gibson;T D Noakes

  • Peak power output predicts maximal oxygen uptake and performance time in trained cyclists.

    John A. Hawley;Timothy D. Noakes

  • Low bone density is an etiologic factor for stress fractures in athletes.

    Kathryn H. Myburgh;Janice Hutchins;Abdul B. Fataar;Stephen F. Hough

  • Peak treadmill running velocity during the VO2 max test predicts running performance.

    T.D. Noakes;K.H. Myburgh;R. Schall

  • The role of information processing between the brain and peripheral physiological systems in pacing and perception of effort.

    Alan Clair St Gibson;Estelle V. Lambert;Laurie H. G. Rauch;Ross Tucker

  • Implications of exercise testing for prediction of athletic performance: a contemporary perspective.

    Timothy D. Noakes

  • Fatigue is a Brain-Derived Emotion that Regulates the Exercise Behavior to Ensure the Protection of Whole Body Homeostasis.

    Timothy David Oms Noakes

  • Hypothalamic dysfunction in overtrained athletes.

    Jeffrey L. Barron;Timothy D. Noakes;Wendy Levy;Colleen Smith

  • Complex systems model of fatigue: integrative homoeostatic control of peripheral physiological systems during exercise in humans

    E V Lambert;A St Clair Gibson;T D Noakes

  • Impaired exercise performance in the heat is associated with an anticipatory reduction in skeletal muscle recruitment.

    Ross Tucker;Laurie Rauch;Yolande X.R. Harley;Timothy D. Noakes

  • A fivefold reduction in the incidence of recurrent ankle sprains in soccer players using the Sport-Stirrup orthosis.

    Iqbal Surve;Martin P. Schwellnus;Tim Noakes;Carl Lombard

  • Vitamin C supplementation reduces the incidence of postrace symptoms of upper-respiratory-tract infection in ultramarathon runners

    Edith M Peters;Jeanette M Goetzsche;Brian Grobbelaar;Timothy D Noakes

  • Water intoxication: a possible complication during endurance exercise

    Timothy D. Noakes;Neil Goodwin;Brian L. Rayner;Trevor Branken

  • The rate of heat storage mediates an anticipatory reduction in exercise intensity during cycling at a fixed rating of perceived exertion

    Ross Tucker;Trevor Marle;Estelle V. Lambert;Timothy D. Noakes

  • Skeletal muscle buffering capacity and endurance performance after high-intensity interval training by well-trained cyclists

    Adèle R. Weston;K. H. Myburgh;F. H. Lindsay;Steven C. Dennis

  • Prediction of energy expenditure from heart rate monitoring during submaximal exercise

    LR Keytel;JH Goedecke;TD Noakes;H Hiiloskorpi

  • Three independent biological mechanisms cause exercise-associated hyponatremia: Evidence from 2,135 weighed competitive athletic performances

    T. D. Noakes;K. Sharwood;D. Speedy;T. Hew

Frequent Co-Authors

Estelle V. Lambert
Estelle V. Lambert University of Cape Town
John A. Hawley
John A. Hawley Australian Catholic University
Joseph G. Verbalis
Joseph G. Verbalis Georgetown University Medical Center
Louise M. Burke
Louise M. Burke Australian Catholic University
Keith George
Keith George Liverpool John Moores University
Carl Lombard
Carl Lombard Stellenbosch University
Roger G. Eston
Roger G. Eston University of South Australia
Asker E. Jeukendrup
Asker E. Jeukendrup Loughborough University
Lionel H. Opie
Lionel H. Opie University of Cape Town
Mark O'Malley
Mark O'Malley Imperial College London

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