There’s no cure for delayed onset muscle soreness (commonly referred to as DOMS ), but if you want to speed up your post-workout recovery, ginger could help, according to registered pharmacist Dipa Kamdar . The senior lecturer in Pharmacy Practice at Kingston University in England says a daily ginger shot “could be beneficial” in easing tight muscles and joints.

I spoke to Kamdar to find out exactly how ginger could ease DOMS, as well as its other health benefits.

Pain management

For muscle pain, a study published in The Journal of Pain found that taking 2g of ginger every day for 11 days could reduce soreness after a workout. The researchers believe that ginger can activate pathways in the nervous system that impact pain, and it could also reduce inflammatory chemicals, prostag

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