Table 2.

Characteristics of participants and interventions in the studies included in the review.

Level of Participants	Elite Athletes	1 Study [31]
	Moderately Active	5 Studies [4,5,10,28,32]
	No Regular Training before the Study	5 Studies [1,2,24,25,30]
Type of Administration of Curcumin	Commercially available curcumin supplement	10 studies [1,2,4,5,10,24,25,30,31,32]
	Curcumin capsule made for the study	1 study [28]
Dosage Used	150 mg/day	1 study [24]
	180 mg/day (2 doses of 90 mg/day)	2 studies [1,25]
	300 mg /day (2 doses of 150 mg/day)	1 study [2]
	400 mg/day	1 study [30]
	400 mg /day (2 doses of 200 mg/day)	1 study [5]
	500 mg / day	1 study [4]
	5 g/day (2 doses of 2.5 g/day)	1 study [28]
	6 g of curcumin + 60 mg of piperine/day (3 doses of 2 g of curcumin + 20 mg of piperine/day)	1 study [31]
	600 mg/day (3 doses of 200 mg of curcumin)	1 study [10]
	1500 mg/day (3 doses of 500 mg of curcumin)	1 study [32]
Moment of Supplementation	Before Exercise	1 study [4]
	Before and After Exercise	9 studies [1,2,5,10,25,28,30,31,32]
	After Exercise	1 study [24]
Duration of Treatment	1 day	2 studies [2,24]
	4 days	3 studies [4,5,31]
	6 days	2 studies [28,30]
	7 days	2 studies [1,25]
	56 days	1 study [10]
	28 days	1 study [32]