Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
Shot with turmeric and vitamins reduces the number of sick days of professional athletes
The number of days that top athletes 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 take a shot with turmeric, vitamin C and vitamin D every day.
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] You can see a bottle of Immune Support below. The Turmeric provided the supplements for free, but did not pay for the study. The researchers' university did that.
The researchers compared the results with a period of 3 weeks that preceded the supplementation period, during which the players received no supplement.
So there was no placebo group.
Intensive training takes a toll on the small intestine. You can see this in the blood by the concentration of the enzyme intestinal fatty-acid binding protein [I-FABP]. The higher the concentration, the greater the blow the intestines have had to take. The figure below suggests that supplementation reduced the impact of training.