Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

In previous Get Fit Guy episodes, I've discussed things like natural remedies for soreness,

how to structure your post-workout activities and meals to lower

soreness levels, and some of the best ways to bounce back quickly from a workout.

But it's still extremely common for fitness enthusiasts, triathletes, marathletters,

and other people who want to push through soreness, pain, or injury to get through a

workout or competition to take ibuprofen, Advil, and other non-steroidal

anti-inflammatory medications or ensades prior to or during physical activity. So in today's

episode, you're going to learn whether you should take ibuprofen, Advil, or other insides before

exercise to reduce muscle soreness and pain, or if there may be

health or safety risks of anti-inflammatories during physical activity. So let's first look into

how ensades actually work. They're typically taken for inflammation or pain and include

things like aspirin, ibuprofen, which includes the brand names

Advil and Motrin, naproxin sodium, which is Aleve, and ketoprofen, which is Arutus KT.

Now, when you take insads, you prevent your body from manufacturing what are called prostaglandins,

and these are natural substances that are involved in

mechanisms like protecting your stomach lining or regulating blood pressure and also calling in

inflammation to an area that has been injured, which can result in pain, redness, swelling, and

discomfort as that natural inflammatory process takes place. Now, because prostaglanins serve functions

in addition to simply causing that inflammation you're trying to get rid of, anti-inflammatories can

cause stomach upset or gastrointestinal bleeding. And while the risk of stomach irritation or

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