Changes in Cetirizine-1 and Catalase Levels in Overweight Non-Athlete Adolescents in 8 Weeks of Endurance Exercise with Ginger

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of eight weeks of intermittent rope endurance training with ginger supplementation on changes in serum levels of cetirizine-1 and catalase in overweight and obese adolescent adolescents.

In this quasi-experimental study, 30 subjects were randomly divided into three groups of exercise + placebo (n = 10), exercise + ginger supplement (n = 10), ginger supplement (n = 10). Subjects in the ginger group received 1 g of ginger powder daily with 250 ml of water for 8 weeks. Blood samples were taken 72 hours before and after the study protocol. Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistical methods, covariance analysis with pre-test data as covariate and control of its effect on results, Bonferroni test, and SPSS software version 22 and Excel were used. The level of significance was considered less than 0.05.

There was no significant difference in the effects of eight weeks of intermittent rope endurance training with ginger supplementation of the indexes P1 (P = 0.141) and Chase (P = 1.299) in all three groups. It can be concluded that eight weeks of intermittent endurance training combined with ginger supplementation did not have a favorable effect on changes in serum levels of cetirizine-1 and catalase in non-athlete overweight and obese adolescents.