Vitamin C

Your all-access pass to staying unbroken after the grind.
This little legend fights off free radicals like bouncers tossing troublemakers out of the club, keeping your cells safe while you wreck yourself at the gym (or the dance floor). It fuels collagen, patching up tissues so your body doesn’t feel like it just went through a mosh pit. It keeps your immune system from ghosting you after a hard session, helps muscles grow and recover by smoothing protein metabolism, and even takes the edge off post-workout aches. Bonus: it powers up energy production so fatigue doesn’t steal the after-party.

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·  2022. Nutritional Compounds to Improve Post-Exercise Recovery. MDPI Nutrients. MDPI
·  2019. Found that ingestion of ascorbic acid before exercising increased antioxidant capacity after exercise. This supports the antioxidant, cell-protection role of Vitamin C. Taylor & Francis Online

·  2018. Short-Term High-Dose Vitamin C Supplementation Attenuates Muscle Damage and Inflammatory Responses to Repeated Taekwondo Competitions. Int J Med Sci. medsci.org
·  2017. Vitamin C–enriched gelatin supplementation before intermittent exercise improves collagen synthesis. ScienceDirect