Commentary in Response to “A Review of Nonpharmacological Strategies in the Treatment of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport”

Embracing Change: The Evolving Science of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport

“…While this review was intended to highlight the state-of-the-art treatment approaches currently available, Strock et al (2021) instead deemed this paper inaccurate and misleading for encapsulating the terminology of the TRIAD within the RED-S model. It was in no way the intention of the Authors of this review to mislead nor neglect important work; instead, the progress and global acceptance of RED-S was written with the assumption that the TRIAD model was captured within the definition of RED-S as the TRIAD had been previously included in both consensus statements (Mountjoy et al, 2014(Mountjoy et al, , 2018.…”

“…Concerns were also raised by the reviewers relating to "omitting" select papers (Strock et al, 2021). The authors attest that this review was, in fact, very comprehensive as it included papers from the TRIAD literature as well as several recent articles that have changed our understanding of this complex issue.…”