Shot with turmeric and vitamins reduces the number of sick days of professional athletes
The number of days that top athlete with a runny nose, nasty cough or overly relaxed intestines are sick at home and cannot train partly determines whether they win or lose. According to a human study, the number of sick days is drastically reduced if elite athletes ta ke a shot with turmeric, vitamin C and vitamin D every da y. Physiologists from Nottingham Trent University gave 23 professional football players a bottle of a turmeric-based shot every day for 16 weeks. Each bottle contained 17.5 grams of turmeric root extract, good for 700 milligrams of curcumin. The bottle also contained 200 milligrams of black pepper. This in turn provided 10 milligrams of piperine, a substance that increases the absorption of curcumin . In addition, each bottle contained 1000 milligrams of vitamin C and 3000 IU of vitamin D3 - that is 75 micrograms of vitamin D3. The researchers use Immune Support Vitamin C + D, a product from The Turmeric. [ theturmeric.co] During the supplementation p...