after reading the first issue of sports nutrition review journal we immediately thought that one area was missing from the introductory articles . the formation of a team approach to nutritional / performance problem solving is needed , with at least one member of the supporting team being extraordinary . what we propose by this is that at least one member of the sports nutrition " team " needs to be capable of thinking in an almost eccentric manner .... with extraordinary ideas being an ordinary occurrence . by having one member performing in this capacity , for this idea , we offer one example : many of us have been taught that muscles grow in specific ways , with little capacity for postnatal hyperplasia and only minute ability to fully regenerate itself when damaged . furthermore , we have commonly been told that only a small number of factors ( ex . additionally , it has been " beat into us " that as we age , muscle mass will automatically decrease ( a process commonly called sarcopenia )  and that little can be done for senile muscular atrophy , except exercise . with the huge number of research papers appearing each day in the scientific literature , there seems to be mounting evidence that some of these " ordinary " and commonly accepted ideas may not be as true as once thought . what if postnatal skeletal muscle could increase numbers of cells ( through some as yet undetermined mechanism ) ? what if nutrients ( themselves ) could regulate muscle growth dynamics  with the correct exercise regimen ? what if we could actually retain our muscle mass as we get older ? who will discover these types of potentially important physiological mechanisms unless someone thinks in an extraordinary manner ? further , what will it take to form research , clinical , and performance " teams " unless someone can see through the present myths regarding muscle growth , nutritional dogma , and performance limitations ? we propose that this journal and members of this society can make a huge difference in the current status of physiology , nutrition , and exercise interactions  by thinking that the ordinary is actually extraordinary .
with the initial issue of this journal , a new challenge has been offered tothe world of sports nutrition : initiate " team oriented " research and clinical trials in order to make dynamic progress in terms of understandingand applying nutrition principals to the field of competitive sports . 
 it is our further challenge that these teams think " outside the box " in terms of their approach to elucidating new concepts through which nutritional interventions might play a role in the regulation of muscle growth and repair , athletic performance and endurance , and mental acuity . 
 what was once thought of as extraordinary might now be approached as ordinary , if the correct composition of " teams " were formed .