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Tart Cherry Juice May Reduce Post-Workout Muscle Pain

Friday June 30, 2006
According to a small University of Vermont study, compounds in tart cherries may help to reduce post-exercise muscle pain and damage.

The study, which was published in the June 21 online edition of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, examined 14 people who drank the equivalent of 60 cherries worth of juice (mixed with apple juice) before exercising or who drank a placebo beverage that contained no cherry juice.

Those who drank the tart cherry juice lost less muscle strength and were less sore than those who didn't. Source: Connolly, D. British Journal of Sports Medicine, June 21, 2006; "Online First" edition. News release, BMJ Specialist Journals.

Comments

July 5, 2006 at 9:11 pm
(1) Garland Tschudin says:

Since this is published in a mainstream medical journal, why is it covered under alternative medicine?

Sounds like a good idea with wide applicability

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