Rhodiola rosea supplementation is a safe and effective supplement for improving athletic ability and sports performance without causing obvious adverse reactions.

Effects of Rhodiola Rosea Supplementation on Exercise and Sport: A Systematic Review

Chronic Rhodiola rosea supplementation improves reaction time in healthy men without affecting physical performance or hormonal profile, but may increase antioxidant capacity.

Effects of Rhodiola rosea supplementation on mental performance, physical capacity, and oxidative stress biomarkers in healthy men

Rhodiola rosea root extract can reduce oxidative stress and potentially protect against muscle wasting during intense physical exercise.

Rhodiola rosea, a protective antioxidant for intense physical exercise: An in vitro study

Acute Rhodiola rosea intake can improve endurance exercise capacity in young healthy volunteers, without altering this response by prior daily 4-week Rhodiola intake.

Acute Rhodiola rosea intake can improve endurance exercise performance.

Short-term Golden Root Extract supplementation increases mean bench press velocity but decreases repetition volume, leading to higher norepinephrine levels and blood lactate after exercise.

Effects of Short-Term Golden Root Extract (Rhodiola rosea) Supplementation on Resistance Exercise Performance

Short-term Rhodiola Rosea (Golden Root Extract) supplementation enhances anaerobic exercise performance in physically active college aged females, potentially offering ergogenic benefits.

Effects of short-term Rhodiola Rosea (Golden Root Extract) supplementation on anaerobic exercise performance

Rhodiola rosea supplementation may improve anaerobic exercise performance and reduce muscle damage during exercise, but more high-quality studies are needed to confirm its clinical efficacy.

Rhodiola rosea supplementation on sports performance: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Chronic Rhodiola Rosea supplementation reduces lactate levels and muscle damage after exhaustive exercise, while improving fatty acid consumption and adaptogen ability in trained male athletes.

Effects of chronic Rhodiola Rosea supplementation on sport performance and antioxidant capacity in trained male: preliminary results.

Rhodiola rosea L. preparations show promising clinical efficacy in managing various aspects of life-stress symptoms and stress-induced conditions, including cognitive functions, mental performance, and cardiovascular and reproductive health.

The Effectiveness of Rhodiola rosea L. Preparations in Alleviating Various Aspects of Life-Stress Symptoms and Stress-Induced Conditions—Encouraging Clinical Evidence

Combined supplementation of Rhodiola rosea and Caffeine significantly improves resistance exercise performance in both untrained and trained individuals.

Synergistic Effect of Rhodiola rosea and Caffeine Supplementation on the Improvement of Muscle Strength and Muscular Endurance: A Pilot Study for Rats, Resistance Exercise-Untrained and -Trained Volunteers

Rhodiola rosea L. extract, containing phenolic compounds, shows potential in treating chronic diseases by enhancing mental and cognitive functions, protecting the central nervous system, and heart during stress.

Phenolic Compounds of Rhodiola rosea L. as the Potential Alternative Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Diseases

Rhodiola rosea root protects human cultured cells from oxidative stress without activating antioxidant defenses, suggesting it does not act as an antioxidant and its mode of action cannot be explained through a pro-oxidant hormetic mechanism.

Protection of human cultured cells against oxidative stress by Rhodiola rosea without activation of antioxidant defenses.

A single oral dose of Rhodiola rosea extract modulates cortical plasticity in humans, potentially contributing to its adaptogenic and antidepressant effects.

Exploring the effect of adaptogenic Rhodiola Rosea extract on neuroplasticity in humans.

Rhodiola rosea has robust traditional and pharmacological evidence for use in fatigue, and emerging evidence supporting cognition and mood.

Rosenroot (Rhodiola rosea): traditional use, chemical composition, pharmacology and clinical efficacy.

Rhodiola rosea extracts and salidroside show potential in anti-aging, anti-inflammation, immunostimulating, DNA repair, and cancer chemoprevention.

Rhodiola rosea L.: an Herb with Anti-Stress, Anti-Aging, and Immunostimulating Properties for Cancer Chemoprevention

Rhodiola rosea L. roots exhibit potent anti-depressant activity by inhibiting MAO A and may also control senile dementia by inhibiting MAO B.

Monoamine oxidase inhibition by Rhodiola rosea L. roots.

Rhodiola rosea L. extract shows potential antidepressant action in adult humans, with a favorable safety profile, through its multi-target effects on stress regulation and neuroendocrine-immune systems.

Rhodiola rosea L. as a putative botanical antidepressant.

Rhodiola rosea root extracts show potential neuroprotective activities, with salidroside showing the most potential against methylglyoxal-induced apoptosis in neuro-2A cells.

Protective Evaluation of Compounds Extracted from Root of Rhodiola rosea L. against Methylglyoxal-Induced Toxicity in a Neuronal Cell Line

Commercial Rhodiola rosea extracts show high variation in content of active markers, salidroside and rosavin, and their potential efficacy for aging-induced cognitive disorders needs further validation.

Assessing the Quality and Potential Efficacy of Commercial Extracts of Rhodiola rosea L. by Analyzing the Salidroside and Rosavin Content and the Electrophysiological Activity in Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation, a Synaptic Model of Memory

Rhodiola rosea root extract shows antipsychotic-like effects in rodent models of sensorimotor gating deficits, suggesting potential therapeutic applications for neuropsychiatric disorders.

Rhodiola rosea root extract has antipsychotic-like effects in rodent models of sensorimotor gating.

Is Rhodiola rosea root extract beneficial during physical activity?

These studies suggest that Rhodiola rosea root extract may improve athletic performance, endurance, and reduce muscle damage and oxidative stress during physical activity.