Reducing Muscle Fatigue With Citrus
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2013-08-09

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DESCRIPTION: Daily citrus fruit consumption during athletic training may reduce muscle fatigue, as evidenced by lower blood lactate concentrations.

The burning sensation during strenuous exercise may be related to the build-up of lactic acid in our muscles, but that's different than the delayed onset muscle soreness that occurs in the days following a bout of extreme physical activity. That's thought to be due to inflammation caused by muscle cell damage, little micro-tears in the muscle. If it's an inflammatory reaction, than might anti-inflammatory phytonutrients help? Find out in the next video Reducing Muscle Soreness with Berries (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/reducing-muscle-soreness-with-berries/).

More about what citrus phytonutrients can do in my last video Keeping Your Hands Warm With Citrus (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/keeping-your-hands-warm-with-citrus/).

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/reducing-muscle-fatigue-with-citrus/ and he'll try to answer it!

Image Credit: pasukaru76 via flickr and Benjah-bmm27 via Wikimedia.

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