Reducing Muscle Soreness With Berries
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2013-08-12

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DESCRIPTION: Anti-inflammatory phytonutrients in berries may explain why cherries can speed recovery after a marathon by reducing muscle pain in long-distance runners.

How about improving athletic performance more directly? See my video series on performance-enhancing vegetables described in my blog Using Greens to Improve Athletic Performance (http://nutritionfacts.org/2012/03/22/using-greens-to-improve-athletic-performance/).

What about reducing the immediate burning sensation during strenuous exercise? See my last video Reducing Muscle Fatigue with Citrus (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/reducing-muscle-fatigue-with-citrus/).

Mushrooms (Boosting Immunity While Reducing Inflammation, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/boosting-immunity-while-reducing-inflammation/), nuts (Fighting Inflammation in a Nut Shell, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fighting-inflammation-in-a-nut-shell/), and purple potatoes (Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Purple Potatoes, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-effects-of-purple-potatoes/) may also reduce inflammation (along with plant foods in general, see Anti-Inflammatory Antioxidants, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-antioxidants/, and Aspirin Levels in Plant Foods, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/aspirin-levels-in-plant-foods/). They may reduce it so much so that plant-based diets can be used to treat inflammatory conditions. See, for example, Dietary Treatment of Crohn's Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/achieving-remission-of-crohns-disease/), Diet & Rheumatoid Arthritis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/diet-rheumatoid-arthritis/), and Potassium and Autoimmune Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/potassium-and-autoimmune-disease/). Animal products on the other hand (paw?), may increase inflammation through a variety of mechanisms, including endotoxins (How Does Meat Cause Inflammation?, http://nutritionfacts.org/2012/09/20/why-meat-causes-inflammation/), arachidonic acid (Chicken, Eggs, and Inflammation, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/chicken-eggs-and-inflammation/), and Neu5Gc (The Inflammatory Meat Molecule Neu5Gc, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-inflammatory-meat-molecule-neu5gc/).

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