Does Muscle Recovery actually make a difference, or is it overhyped?

Beyond protein and creatine (covered elsewhere), several other nutritional interventions have meta-analytic support for easing exercise-induced muscle damage: dietary flavonoid-containing polyphenols and nitrate-rich beetroot juice both show modest benefit for muscle-damage markers in meta-analysis, as does curcumin supplementation for delayed-onset muscle soreness. Weighing the data: Muscle Recovery looks an early-stage, lower-priority area for now — the evidence is only emerging (38/100), and its estimated impact (25/100) is on the lower end too.