I’ve heard this mentioned a few times now across to few training and nutrition videos/discussions but never in detail. I think I struggle with a bit of inflammation after a big ride, as I’m sure many do, and wonder if I can make even a small dent in that by adding a natural anti-inflammatory in to …

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No no no. This is acute inflammation, in reaction to your event, and is good for you. It’s the body repairing itself and getting stronger , as long as you allow enough recovery time. It’s chronic (near continuous long term) inflammation that is bad for you, and a trigger for many diseases.

I picked this up recently somewhere in a thread here: drink chamomile tea before bed. Not too much obviously as it will interrupt your sleep. But apparently it calms down the limpathic system and can help with recovery. I have been doing it the past few weeks and my HRV doesn’t dip that low after ha…

As alluded to above, “inflammation” drives a lot of the muscular pathways into hypertrophy etc. Why would you want to avoid the positive effects? Focus on high level recovery (nutrition, rest, sleep, mobility) and the rest will fall into place.

Acute inflammation is your immune system doing upgrades to your body. The only reason I’d like to blunt that would be if I need to perform the next day, e.g., during a multi stage event.

As mentioned above, you don’t want to shut down inflammation after a ride if the focus is adaptation and getting faster. Andy Galpin and Andrew Huberman have discussed this on the podcasts they’ve done, just no way I could remember which one(s) and where. But I think it’s something like 3-4 hours…

Johnathan Vaughters was on the Giro commentary on Sunday, and he mentioned that they see substantial water retention (i.e. inflammation) in their fatigued riders on the rest day. He stated that, counterintuitively, the more fatigued/inflamed they are, the more time they’re told to spend on the bike …

I have an old knee injury unrelated to cycling so I’ve figured out a cocktail that keeps it from getting irritated which is liquid collagen, glucosamine, chondroitin, hyaluronic acid and then omega 3, turmeric curcumin and ginger pills. The biggest thing I would recommend is to slowly build up your …

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I’ve googled the hell out of it, it’s difficult to find training specific information but I posted because I was keen to hear some real world experience

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