ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2022
Short-Term Oral Quercetin Supplementation Improves Post-exercise Insulin Sensitivity, Antioxidant Capacity and Enhances Subsequent Cycling Time to Exhaustion in Healthy Adults: A Pilot Study.
Article in Frontiers in nutrition, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Effect of a Nutraceutical Combination on Oxidative Stress Biomarkers in Healthy Subjects and Patients with Alzheimer's Disease.Nutrients · 2026Trial
- Effects of Quercetin and Citrulline on Nitric Oxide Metabolites and Antioxidant Biomarkers in Trained Cyclists.Nutrients · 2025Trial
- Garlic supplementation attenuates cycling exercise-induced oxidative inflammation but fails to improve time trial performance in healthy adults.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2023Trial
- Quercetin as a multifaceted neuroprotective agent against cerebral ischaemia-reperfusion injury: mechanisms and therapeutic potential.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- The Gut Microbiome and Its Impact on Mood and Decision-Making: A Mechanistic and Therapeutic Review.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Effect of astaxanthin supplementation on cycling performance, muscle damage biomarkers and oxidative stress in young adults: a randomized controlled trial.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Nutritional Strategies to Improve Post-exercise Recovery and Subsequent Exercise Performance: A Narrative Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Review
- Polyphenols and post-exercise muscle damage: a comprehensive review of literature.European journal of medical research · 2025Review
- Antifatigue effect of okara protein hydrolysate supplementation during cycling exercise in men: a pre-post uncontrolled pilot study.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2024Article
- Therapeutic potential of natural products in inflammation: underlying molecular mechanisms, clinical outcomes, technological advances, and future perspectives.Inflammopharmacology · 2023Review
- Quercetin supplementation promotes recovery after exercise-induced muscle damage: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Biology of sport · 2023Review
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- Quercetin Abates Aluminum Trioxide Nanoparticles and Lead Acetate Induced Altered Sperm Quality, Testicular Oxidative Damage, and Sexual Hormones Disruption in Male Rats.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Quercetin Paradox, Evaluation of its Therapeutic Efficacy as a Nutraceutical in Clinical Trials: Evidence and Speculation.Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis SocietyArticle
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Abstract
Aim: Quercetin has been reported to have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties on health promotion in human studies. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of short-term oral quercetin supplementation on post-exercise whole-body energy metabolism. This study also aimed to determine the effects of supplementation on oxygen stress, inflammation, muscle damage, and high-intensity cycling exercise performance. Method: Twelve healthy participants, physically active students, were recruited to perform a randomized, single-blind crossover study. All subjects completed 7-days of quercetin (quercetin:1,000 mg per day for 7-days) and placebo supplementation in a randomized order. Supplement/placebo was combined with exercise consisting of 70% V̇O Results: The results showed that 7-day quercetin supplementation significantly attenuated the post-exercise glucose-induced insulin response, increased total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and superoxidase dismutase (SOD) activities, and mitigated malondialdehyde (MDA) levels during the recovery period ( Conclusion: Our findings concluded that 7-day oral quercetin supplementation enhances high-intensity cycling time to exhaustion, which may be due in part to the increase in whole-body insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and attenuation of exercise-induced oxygen stress and pro-inflammation. Therefore, quercetin may be considered an effective ergogenic aid for enhancing high-intensity cycling performance among young adults.
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