Papers/PMID:16948483
Effect of high dose vitamin C supplementation on muscle soreness, damage, function, and oxidative stress to eccentric exercise.
International journal of sport nutrition and exercise metabolism2006The record
1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint
What it reported
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1 finding
L-ascorbic acid — decreases serum creatine kinase activity
Evidence strength: very limited.Finding“VC attenuated the creatine kinase (CK) increase at 48 h after exercise with similar CK after this time.”
Quoted verbatim from Effect of high dose vitamin C supplementation on muscle soreness, damage, function, and oxidative stress to eccentric exercise.. - Study
- RCT
- Participants
- 18
- Dose
- 3 g/d for 2 wk before and 4 d after exercise
- Population
- Eighteen healthy men after 70 eccentric elbow extensions; effect at the 48 h timepoint only, CK similar between groups at other times
Effect of high dose vitamin C supplementation on muscle soreness, damage, function, and oxidative stress to eccentric exercise.2006PMID:1694848310.1123/ijsnem.16.3.270Permalink