Conclusion
muscle damage
INFLAMMATION
In summary, we demonstrated that 4 weeks of oral garlic supplementation (1000 mg/day) is unable to improve 40-km cycling time trial performance. Although, garlic extract enhanced total antioxidant capacity, supplementation also attenuated exercise-induced levels of lipid peroxidation MDA, inflammatory TNF-α, and muscle damage LDH during exercise. However, taking together with physiology evidence regarding cycling performance and exercise-induced energy metabolism, oxidative inflammation, and muscle damage, we suggest that supplement dosage and more muscle physiology parameters need to be verified in future studies. Consequently, the results demonstrated that 4 weeks of garlic supplementation has no ergogenic property on cycling performance in healthy adults.