Chili Pepper and Reduced Muscle Deoxygenation Rate

• Limb, sex, but not acute dietary capsaicin, modulate the near-infrared spectroscopy-vascular occlusion test estimate of muscle metabolism.

  • 2024-03
  • Clinical Trial · n = 25
  • Physiological reports 12(6)
  • • Lauren M Greaves
    • Kendall S Zaleski
    • Alexs A Matias
    • Abena O Gyampo
    • Gaia Giuriato
    • Meaghan Lynch
    • Brian Lora
    • Tawn Tomasi
    • Emma Basso
    • Emma Finegan
    • Jack Schickler
    • Massimo Venturelli
    • Justin A DeBlauw
    • Elena Shostak
    • Oliver E Blum
    • Stephen J Ives

  • PubMed: 38537943
  • DOI: 10.14814/phy2.15988

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Muscle Deoxygenation Rate

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  Capsaicin does not clearly alter O2-dependent muscle metabolism, but there was apparent limb and sex specificity, interacting with capsaicin in this NIRS-derived assessment.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No