Muscles & recovery
Products that may be helpful with muscles and recovery. A suggestion drawn from thirty-five years of experience, not a diagnosis.
Organic Black Seed Oil
“Great quality, great service. Wonderful oil that helps during the winter.”
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Why this match?
Black seed oil is the inside work for recovery, lowering the inflammation hard training leaves behind. The massage oil takes it into the tired muscle, with lavender to settle the evening towards sleep. Rosemary eases a cramp that has seized up.
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Organic Black Seed Oil · 500ml£47.00Organic Black Seed Massage Oil · 500ml£30.00Or start with the Organic Black Seed Oil on its own.
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The full breakdown
Where to start, and what goes alongside it.
Main recommendation
Organic Black Seed Oil 500ml
Cold-pressed black seed, the oil we have pressed in London since 1991, nothing added.
Recovery starts inside, and the oil is the inside work. Thymoquinone lowers the inflammation and oxidative stress that soreness and hard training leave behind, so the body is clearing the load across the whole system rather than only where it aches. Taken daily through a training block it is the foundation the massage works on top of.
One teaspoon in a little warm water thirty minutes before food, in the morning.
just over three months
The steadier recovery builds over the first weeks of taking it daily, less of the lingering heaviness after hard days.
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Organic Black Seed Massage Oil 500ml · INCLUDED IN THE PAIR
Worked into the tired muscle, morning and night
This is the one for the muscle itself. Black seed through the skin is anti-inflammatory and mildly pain-relieving, and because the blend absorbs below the surface it reaches the tired tissue rather than sitting on it. Wild nettle calms the inflamed tissue, milk thistle and black grape feed and repair it, and lavender relaxes the muscle and settles the evening towards sleep, which is when recovery happens.
Warm a little in the palms and work it slowly into the muscle after the day or after training, morning and evening.
two to three months on the areas that need it
Ease and warmth come the same day, within minutes of working it in. The lasting change comes from doing it every day alongside the oil.
View productOrganic Wild Rosemary Oil 100ml · OPTIONAL ADDITION
A few drops on a cramp that has seized up
Rosemary reduces muscle spasms and cramps and eases pain, so it is the one for the tight, cramping muscle on top of the massage oil. A few drops worked into the knot or breathed from the palms relaxes what has seized up.
A few drops worked into the tight muscle when it has seized.
a long time at a few drops
This one works in the moment, the cramp or spasm easing within minutes. Used alongside the oil and the massage it is the fast relief on the worst days.
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Black seed oil before food each morning is the inside work for recovery. The massage oil worked into the tired muscle morning and evening takes it to the tissue. If you add the rosemary as well, a few drops ease a cramp that has seized up.
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020 8366 2585Shared as experience, not medical advice. Not a diagnosis or a claim to treat any condition. Our products work alongside, never instead of, the care of your doctor.
