Aspirin after injury repairs muscles. Ibuprofen inhibits.
After a tough workout, your hand automatically reaches for ibuprofen. It's almost a reflex – shoulder aches, quad aches, swallow a pill, forget it. A recent study on bioRxiv shows that this isn't a neutral habit for muscle recovery. And that a cheap aspirin does the opposite in the same conditions. What did researchers from Canada and the USA do (Lu et al., April 2026)...
