Today, there is lot of interest towards traditional medicines and herbal-based treatment all over the world. Therefore numerous experimental and clinical studies are being undertaken on medicinal plants. Looking at all the finding we can conclude that athlete could get benefits of having especially sage in their diet or as a supplement. Plants with anti-inflammatory effect are important for athletes to eat.
The major phytochemicals in flowers, leaves, and stem of sage are well identified. The plant have a wide range of important compounds include alkaloids, carbohydrate, fatty acids, glycosidic derivatives, coumarins, flavonoids, tannins, poly acetylenes and even steroids are found. It also contains many vitamins & minerals – a small amount of sage packs 10% of your daily vitamin K needs.
Destroying muscles tissue at every practice, doing the same movement over and over again but also getting bruises from battles creates a lot of inflammation in the body. This inflammation needs recovery and healing. For a long time, sage have been used in traditional medicine for the relief of pain, protecting the body against oxidative stress, free radical damages, angiogenesis, inflammation, bacterial and virus infection, etc., Several studies suggest that sage can be considered for drug development because of their reported pharmacology and therapeutic activities.
The best athlete is not always the fastes, biggest or the strongest person in the room. Most of the time it is the athlete who has a sharpest mind. Studies have shown that sage have active compounds that may enhance cognitive activity and protect against neurodegenerative disease. There is increasing evidence to suggest that sage has cognitive- and memory-enhancing effects. The effects of plants belonging to the sage family could be cognitive skills including memory, attention and learning.
Sage belongs to the mint family, alongside other herbs like oregano, rosemary, basil and thyme. It has a strong aroma and earthy flavour, and is available fresh, dried or in oil form. You can use sage as a tea, Sprinkle it on food or/and use it as an ingredient in recipes.
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