Cheribundi Tart Cherry Juice

Remember the days when a certain lemon-lime colored drink was the go-to recovery drink for athletes? It seemed like every football team was pictured chugging it…until they found out it didn’t really live up to the post-play recovery hype. These days when teams, like both of Monday’s NCAA championship game football teams, the Clemson Tigers and Crimson Tide, aim for an edge on recovery they reach for a new tart and sweet secret weapon – Cheribundi. It’s not just the Tiger’s and Tide, 79 NCAA college football teams and 13 NFL Pro teams now buy the all-natural tart-cherry Super Food or in this case Super Drink, for its many health benefits.

So what are some of the benefits of tart cherry:

Pain Management: During sports performance and every day activities, certain enzymes in the body can create inflammation in muscles and joints causing aches and pains. Tart cherries contain phytonutrients and anthocyanins which have powerful antioxidant properties and block these inflammation-causing enzymes, reducing pain felt within the body. Many years ago, my doctor suggested that I consume tart cherry daily because of joint pain from working out. Tart cherries can also be used to help manage pain from gout and arthritis.

Improve Sleep: So basically I’m not lacking there. I’m one of the old “early to be, early to rise” type of people, but let’s face it. More and more people are having difficulty when it comes to getting in a full nights sleep. Tart cherries are a natural source of melatonin, which is a naturally occurring hormone secreted in the brain that helps regulate the body’s natural sleep cycle. Artificial light and electronics can really interrupt the body’s natural melatonin process which in turn disrupts sleep. Drinking tart cherry juice has shown to encourage melatonin production naturally, increasing sleep quality.

Athletic Recovery: Now this is where it affects me the most. Lifting weight and working out daily can at times put a strain on the body. There are days or even weeks that I can easily feel like I’ve been run over by a truck. The antioxidants in tart cherries have been shown to increase the speed of athletic recovery by reducing pain and muscle soreness. The pain associated with exercise often involved muscle damage, inflammation and oxidative stress. Tart cherries help reduce muscle soreness post-workout and decrease the amount of time it takes to regain your strength.

We are all different and I always say what works for one person, may or may not work for another. While I have taken cherry in the past, I wasn’t 100% sold on drinking it which is why I took the 7-day challenge.

Why 7 days? Well it’s simple really. Tart cherries have one of the highest ORAC unit capacities amount all superfruits, offering a high dose of anthocyanins. So drinking 8oz. of tart cherry juice for seven days has been shown to increase the body’s anthocyanin level needed to achieve the maximum health benefits and feel your best.

You can read more about cheribundi by visiting their site. You can also sign up for the 7-day challenge as well if it’s something that might interest you. Along with signing up for the free 7-day challenge you will receive a coupon for cheribundi.