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In the UK, CBD is sold as a food supplement: not a prescribed medicine, not medical cannabis, and the three categories are not interchangeable. Strength training raises more supplement questions than most activities, so it helps to separate the legal position, the evidence and the marketing in between.

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In the UK, CBD is sold as a food supplement, not as a prescribed medicine, and it is not medical cannabis. That distinction matters, because “help” is doing a lot of work in the question above. Nothing in the sources checked here establishes that CBD changes exercise-related inflammation. Below is what the term means, why the two ideas get searched together, and what the FSA,...

In the UK, CBD is sold as a food supplement, not as a medicine, and it is not medical cannabis. That fact explains much of the gap between the way “CBD for muscle recovery” is marketed and what can honestly be said. Below is what recovery means in a training context, what the FSA and the NHS say, and which product checks are worth running.

CBD is sold in the UK as a food supplement, not a medicine, and that shapes everything below. On sport recovery, no good evidence shows it speeds recovery, eases soreness or improves performance, even though plenty of marketing implies otherwise. Below is what the FSA and the NHS say, why soreness claims must stay cautious, and which product checks are worth doing.

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