Some advice from Dr Greger about which foods help reduce pain in our muscles and allow them to recover and heal - AND BUILD!

In the two videos below, Dr Greger shares with us ways in which our diets can impact how quickly our muscles recover following strength training - or any activity that makes them ache! Once more we learn what we put into our mouths determines what happens in our bodies.

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Does Ginger work for muscle pain? Dr Greger answers this question by saying "Not acutely. You can’t just take it like a drug. If you give folks a teaspoon of ginger before a bout of cycling, no difference in leg muscle pain over the 30 minutes. “However, ginger may attenuate the day-to-day progression of muscle pain.” Taking ginger five days in a row appears to “accelerate the recovery of maximal strength” following a high-load weight-lifting protocol. Put all the studies together, and a single dose of ginger doesn’t appear to help, but a teaspoon or two for a couple days or weeks in a pumpkin smoothie or something, and you may be able to reduce muscle pain and soreness, and accelerate recovery of muscular strength."

What about Watermelon? "Researchers in Spain had a group of men engage in intense physical activity after drinking two cups of fresh-blended watermelon or a watermelon-free placebo drink. And, the next day, those that preloaded with watermelon were significantly less sore—around one on a scale of one to five, compared to closer to two after placebo. They conclude that “functional compound[s]…in fruits and vegetables [can] play a key role in the design of new natural…products…by the food industry, instead of synthetic compounds from [the] pharmaceutical industry. But, why design new natural products when nature already designed the products we need?"

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