Killer QC post workout

I see that this is being reccomended post workout for its extremely high ORAC value.

Can someone please help me out and reply with some studies on how anti-oxidants post workout is beneficial to overall performance? I seem to have some difficulty finding studies which support his point. I actually found articles which state postworkout anti-oxidants can be damaging to muscles.


This acute human inflammatory model strongly suggests that vitamin C and NAC supplementation immediately post-injury, transiently increases tissue damage and oxidative stress.

Childs A, Jacobs C, Kaminski T, Halliwell B, Leeuwenburgh C. Supplementation with vitamin C and N-acetyl-cysteine increases oxidative stress in humans after an acute muscle injury induced by eccentric exercise. Free Radic Biol Med. 2001 Sep 15;31(6):745-53.


This study provides no evidence that chronic muscle inflammation compromises antioxidant status or increases lipid peroxidation

Child R, Brown S, Day S, Donnelly A, Roper H, Saxton J. Changes in indices of antioxidant status, lipid peroxidation and inflammation in human skeletal muscle after eccentric muscle actions. Clin Sci (Lond). 1999 Jan;96(1):105-15.


Thanks for the help in advanced!