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Natural Way to Soothe
Postworkout Aches
By Real Age

Take the "ouch" out of workouts by cooking with this spicy little root: ginger.

  A new study shows that getting ample amounts of ginger every day could help decrease postworkout muscle pain by up to 25 percent.
"G" Is for Ginger

  In the study, participants took about half a teaspoon of raw or heat-treated ginger daily -- or a placebo -- for 11 days. On day 8, they did a
super-difficult arm workout as well. About 24 hours later, the pain levels of the ginger takers were about 25 percent lower than those in the placebo
group.

Pain Be Gone
  Turns out compounds in ginger have anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties similar to those found in nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
And those properties help inhibit enzymes and compounds involved in the pain process. Ginger may also have a dulling effect on nerves that process
pain signals.

Here are three other foods that fight postworkout soreness:

The food: Cereal
The magic: Whole-grain carbs. A carb-rich snack can help you overcome fatigue by restoring glycogen, the all-important stuff your muscles use for
energy.

The food: Curry
The magic: Curcumin, a substance found in the Indian spice turmeric, may help quell the muscle inflammation that you know as next-day stiffness
and soreness.

The food: Coffee
The magic: Caffeine. When there's inflammation in your muscles after exercise, your body releases adenosine, a substance that can cause you pain 1
and 2 days later. Caffeine is thought to help mute adenosine, which may reduce your ouch factor. A new small study suggests it may also reduce
perceptions of muscle pain even while you're exercising.

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