If you take any nonsteroidal anti-inflammation medication (NSAID), they could be working against your goals in the gym. Although NSAIDs can help with muscle and joint pain, they also interfere with the catabolic muscle repairing process. Here’s How: NSAID medications block prostaglandins, stress chemicals that generate muscle stem cells. Also known as satellite cells, these nucleus-only cells combine with muscle cells that were stressed or damaged during your workout to promote repair and adaptation.
Because these satellite cells are so important to protein synthesis and the formation of new muscle tissue, you should use NSAID type medications only when absolutely necessary. Supplements like glucosamine, chondroitin, MSM and fish oil all have anti-inflammatory qualities. So does the olive oil you can buy at any supermarket.
I guess im not taking any more tylenol or aspirin.....