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As a diligent student of the SuppVersity you are no stranger to the
ergogenic value of sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO(3) or bak ing
soda, and though I still believe that I have to do a lot of persuading
in terms of its stand-alone benefits (click here to read more),
many of you will at least have been impressed by its ability to
boost the uptake and subsequent performance benefits from
creatine supplements (cf. "Supercharging Creatine With Baking
Soda"). And while I am not sure if the soon-to-be-published study
by Carr et al. will be last straw that's finally going to break your
back... ah, I mean your resistance, or I should say, unwillingness
to accept that something as cheap and simple as baking soda
could outperform 90% of the overpriced supplemental non-starters
on the market and will not make you draw water or increase your
blood pressure, although it has the bad word "sodium" in its
name, I cannot tell, what I can tell you though, is that Benjamin
M. Carr and his colleagues from the School of Human
Performance and Recreation at the University of Southern
Mississippi in Hattiesburg are spot on, when they say (or write)
that their "findings demonstrate ergogenic efficacy for NaHCO(3)
during [hypertrophy-type resistance training]" (Kerr. 2012).
The benefits of baking soda start at high intensity aerobic
exercise, and end right where your willpower ends ;-)
That baking soda can be an effective ergogenic aid, especially
when it comes to high volume workouts has actually long been
established. Still many, if not most of the trials involved sprinters
or cyclists performing HIIT-esque protocols on the track or cycle ergometer (e.g. 11.5% increase in
sprint performance in Price. 2003), whereas researchers such as Portington et al. or Webster et al.
totally missed the boat or, I should say, what it means to train, when they had their study participants
perform laughable 5 sets of leg presses and measured nothing but a (yet significant) difference in blood
pH in response to pre-supplementation (105 min before the test) with sodium bicarbonate (Webster,
1993; Portington. 1998).
With four sets of three exercises at the 12RM (not yet Serge Nubret style, I know; see image 1 ;-) and
the king of all leg exercises, the squat being one of them, as well as resistance trained study
participants who were actually able to lift a weight that would be taxing enough to see a difference, the
study design of the Carr study (see figure 1) is yet more of what I would expect to yield results with real
world significance for trainees who are not at the gym to chat and show off their latest gymwear, but to
train... and as the data in figure 2 goes to show, the results were what these very trainees are looking
for:
Image 1: Squats, 8 x 12, Leg Press 6
x 12, Leg Ext. 6 x 12; that's the
Quads routine Serge Nubret trained
twice a week in conjunction with
chest – it stands out of question that
this is the kind of workout that
benefits most from an acid buffer
like NaHCO(3)!
Figure 1: Overview of the experimental protocol that was used in the study (based on Carr. 2012)
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I freely admit, an overall plus of ~22reps, in other words 1.83 reps per set does not sound like much,
but if you think about how long you would have to train to achieve this improvement and/or compare it to
the median effect size of weeks of beta alanine supplementation, of which you can hardly say that it
was one of the aforementioned supplemental non-starters, and still offers a performance increment of
only 2.87% (Hobson. 2012), the 22 +/- 13 reps or 4% increase in total volume the participants in the
Carr study achieved within about 2min (by drinking their 22-32g of baking soda) are more than just a bit
of alright.
"But isn't the increase in lactate a bad thing?"
"Lactate...?" I knew this would be your next question. I mean it is already hard enough to believe that
anything that has the word "sodium" (by the way you Americans are the only ones who don't get that
this ought to be "natrium" and not "sodium" ;-) in its name is not per se bad for you, and now the guys
in the baking soda group had higher lactate levels!
A note on the dangers of "salt": Firstly, bak ing soda
is "only" ~28% sodium, which means that for every 4
grams you ingest you get roughly 1 g of sodium.
Secondly, it is arguable how much of the sodium is
effectively taken up and will be floating around in
your blood. As T. Lakhanisky points out in his
dossier for the Belgian government: "The uptake of
sodium, via exposure to sodium carbonate, is much
less than the uptake of sodium via food. Therefore,
sodium carbonate is not expected to be systemically
available in the body." (Lakhanisky. 2002) And
thirdly, there is more and more evidence that
suggests that the chloride rather than the sodium
content of common table salt (NaCl = Natrium +
Chloride) is the root cause of "sodium induced
hypertension" in "sodium sensitive" individuals /
animal models. Only recently, a study by Schmidlin et al. showed that chloride loading
induced hypertension in the stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat despite profound
sodium depletion (Schmidlin. 2010). So, if you asked me, rather than pointing at salt as the #2
on the list of greatest evils (obviously cholesterol is still #1, here) the medical orthodoxy would
be better advised to address the imbalances between sodium and potassium (click here to
learn more about the ratios), which are so characteristic of the western diet, instead of
painting yet another black and white picture where sodium is the bad guy and potassium the
dangerous mineral that cannot be sold OTC in dosages >80mg.... but hey, this would be the
topic for a whole new blogpost and as gross as it may sound, the chance that you get
diarrhea from the baking soda is probably 1000x higher than the remote possibility of
increases in blood pressure. A 1990 study by Luft et al. even found that the blood pressure of
10 mildly hypertensive and normal subjects decreased by 5mmHg after 7 days in the course
of which they drank 3 liters of sodium bicarbonate containing water per day (Luft. 1990)
Now, you would have reason to be concerned if we were talking about lactic acid, which is basically
lactate + a proton (you can also say, lactate is the negative ion of lactate acid if you want to). Contrary
to the latter, which increases during exercise when the acid buffer of your musculature is exhausted,
lactate is however not just benign, but actually beneficial.
"So lactate is a bonus... really?"
While it's still debated whether lactate is only a beneficial co-
factor in the mitochondrial energy chain, as Van Hall
Figure 2: Lactate, pH, ratio of hydrogen carbonate ions to NaHCO(3) and base excess in blood after, as well as number of
total reps performed during the leg workout (data adapted from Carr. 2012)
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Primalkid wrote...I have no idea, but my guess would be help
with the Thermicarb or give a slight alkalineeffect to the drink (similar to lemon juice).
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Was it L-carnitine or was it a salt?
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proposes in his Y2K review of the research (Van Hall. 2000)
or rather a mitochondrial energy substrate in its own right that
cannot be used only in the mitochondria of your skeletal and
heart muscle but also in your brain, as Pellerin et al. suggest
(Pellerin. 2007), it is indisputable that the decreased
formation of lactic acid, due to the perseverance of an overall
higher alkalinity in the presence of a 4% higher workout
volume is a beneficial things. Not the least, by virtue of the its
ability to trigger the release of growth hormone (cf. figure 3;
Luger. 1992), which could - in conjunction with the increased
workout capacity and the supposedly faster post-workout
recovery give trainees on a hypertrophy-oriented volume
training regimen an edge over the salt-o-phobic competition.
In view of the fact that Carr et al. arrive at the exact same
conclusion, before they state that the "ergogenic efficacy" of
sodium bicarbonate during "hypertrophy-type resistance exercise" would "warrant further investigation
into chronic training applications" (Carr. 2012), we can expect to see a future trial investigating exactly
that: How much more will you gain if you repeat this practice for 6-8 weeks? ... I guess, I don't have to
tell you that the SuppVersity is going to be the place, where you are going to read about the results of
that study, first!
References:
Carr BM, Webster MJ, Boyd JC, Hudson GM, Scheett TP. Sodium bicarbonate
supplementation improves hypertrophy-type resistance exercise performance. Eur J Appl
Physiol. 2012 Sep 4.
Lakhanisky T. Sodium Bicarbonate. OECD SIDS. UNEP Publications. 2002.
Luger A, Watschinger B, Deuster P, Svoboda T, Clodi M, Chrousos GP. Plasma growth
hormone and prolactin responses to graded levels of acute exercise and to a lactate
infusion. Neuroendocrinology. 1992 Jul;56(1):112-7.
Luft FC, Zemel MB, Sowers JA, Fineberg NS, Weinberger MH. Sodium bicarbonate and
sodium chloride: effects on blood pressure and electrolyte homeostasis in normal and
hypertensive man. J Hypertens. 1990 Jul;8(7):663-70.
Pellerin, L., Bouzier- Sore, A.-K., Aubert, A., Serres, S., Merle, M., Costalat, R. &
Magistretti, P. 2007. Activity-dependent regulation of energy metabolism by astrocytes: an
update. Glia 55, 1251–1262.
Price M, Moss P, Rance S. Effects of sodium bicarbonate ingestion on prolonged
intermittent exercise. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2003 Aug;35(8):1303-8.
Portington KJ, Pascoe DD, Webster MJ, Anderson LH, Rutland RR, Gladden LB. Effect of
induced alkalosis on exhaustive leg press performance. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1998
Apr;30(4):523-8.
Schmidlin O, Tanaka M, Sebastian A, Morris RC Jr. Selective chloride loading is pressor in
the stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat despite hydrochlorothiazide-induced
natriuresis. J Hypertens. 2010 Jan;28(1):87-94.
Van Hall G. Lactate as a fuel for mitochondrial respiration. Acta Physiol Scand. 2000
Apr;168(4):643-56.
Figure 3: Mean plasma lactate, GH, and
prolactin responses to intravenous infusion
of 250ml 1M sodium lactate in 7
untrained healthy volunteer; note: the
respective increase in GH is more
pronounced with natural = exercise
induced increases in lactate.
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Kevin September 5, 2012 at 6:47 PM
Hi Prof Dr, Andro
How should the dosing be taken? Is it best to split up the 22g into smaller portions or to take
it all at once pre-workout? Do you recommend saving some to take with a peri-workout
shake? Also, is it a good idea to take the 0.3/kg dosing along with creatine pre-workout?
Thanks and keep up the great work.
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Prof. Dr. Andro September 6, 2012 at 8:34 PM
the maximal alkalizing effect SHOULD be achieve when you ingest those all at
onece; if your stomach does not tolerate that (=diarrhea) you can start you at
90min, 60min, 30min... on the other hand, there are also studies showing
benefits from a "chronic" supplementation regimen. I am still waiting for a well-
conducted study that would probe not so much the immediate perfomance
effects, but rather the metabolic effects of taking 20g in say serving over the
day and thus staying more alkaline, but unfortunately I cannot pay for it ;-)
Anonymous September 5, 2012 at 10:44 PM
Possible GI disturbances? I remember a couple years ago I took a large dosage of baking
soda for its performance benefits and had a case of the runs.
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Prof. Dr. Andro September 6, 2012 at 8:35 PM
as mentioned before. Some people are unfortunately very susceptible. For me
it did go away with ramping up, though.... try starting with a teaspoon and work
your way up, if you want to try it
Gabriel Sanchez September 5, 2012 at 11:37 PM
Great post. I always love to read the latest NaHCO(3) research, and know this is just the
place to find it!
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Prof. Dr. Andro September 6, 2012 at 8:36 PM
let's hope it does not take too long for the next study; also, as mentioned
above, I wold love to see a study on the metabolic effects instead of the
performance effects.
Unknown September 6, 2012 at 10:59 AM
Hello Dr. Andro
Thanks again for these good articles! I found this study in pubmed from 1993 though:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8396707
Effect of sodium bicarbonate ingestion on exhaustive resistance exercise performance.
Six weight trained males were studied prior to, during, and in recovery from exhaustive
resistance exercise, 105 min after ingesting 300 mg.kg-1 of either a placebo or NaHCO3. The
exercise test consisted of four sets of 12 repetitions with a fifth set to volitional fatigue on a
Universal leg press machine at a resistance equaling approximately 70% of the subjects 1-
repetition maximum.
Repetitions performed in the final exercise set were not significantly different between groups
(NaHCO3: 19.6 +/- 1.6, placebo: 18.2 +/- 1.1 repetitions).
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I did mention those study explicitly - the workload is too low to see an effect.
Kevin Holleran September 6, 2012 at 5:35 PM
Hello,
Thank you for all your amazing articles. I used to use a regiment of Beta-Alanine, AAKG, &
Creatine as my pre-workout, sometimes mixed from individual supplements, sometime in the
form of N.O.Xplode.
After reading many of your articles, it was illustrated that AAKG has no real value in
increasing NO production. So basically, it seems that my supplement regiment should be
something like: creatine, baking soda, beta-alanine, & BCAA's pre-workout. Typically, post
workout I hit a Progenex protein shake, & sweet potatoes. I am follow a pretty strict primal
diet & do Crossfit & heavy lifting.
How much and how should I schedule the supplements above? Do those go together well?
Thank you very much for your time & your blog.
Kevin
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Primalkid September 6, 2012 at 8:08 PM
Kevin,
Pre-workout I would recommend 1-3g Tyrosine, 2g Glutamine, 5-10g BCAAs,
and 5g creatine. The baking soda is optional and will only benefit you if you do
high volume training. If you are also trying to cut, you could add in Yohimbine
HCL (.2mg/kg bodyweight), and 200mg caffeine (more or less depending on
tolerance).
Post-workout you want some fast and slow digesting proteins (.3-.5g/kg lean
body mass), as well as some fast and slow carbs (.5-1.5g/kg lean body mass
depending on amount of volume performed during workout). I recommend either
milk protein isolate, or a 50/50 mix of whey isolate and casein. As for carbs,
sweet potatoes are great, but i personally prefer bananas since they have the
ideal 2:1 glucose:fructose ratio (they are also delicious ;-)
Take the pre-workout about 30 minutes beforehand, and the post-workout
within an hour. Hope this helps.
Prof. Dr. Andro September 6, 2012 at 8:49 PM
Primalkid's recommendations are good - aside from the yohimbine, where the
science on fat loss benefits are nonexistent (I discard the one existent study
on soccer players because it is not methodologically flawed, but simply lacks
all information / control of the methods) - the rest is guesswork based on
molecular mechanisms that have been misleading us time and again and my
personal experience says that if anything it leads to bloating (water retention)
and thus makes you looked f*** up.
if you want an NO boost you could try citrulline that can actually make it to
your muscle and wont get stuck in the cells of the gut, but even here it is not
exactly like you would miss the substrate for the pump... esp. if you are going
low carb you just won't produce so much nitric oxide as one of the patways
that increases skeletal muscle NO production is insulin (>
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC295191/pdf/jcinvest00021-
0270.pdf)
Ah, I also usually don't recommend tyrosine, not because it cannot work, but
because it does not work in 80% of the people I know who have tried it.
And looking back at your original stack, I would always prefer taurine over beta
alanine - you can cycle the latter by the way, like taking 4 weeks off; it takes
some time for the carnosine levels to go back to normal
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Kevin Holleran September 7, 2012 at 5:23 AM
So a good formula might be, an hour before training:
Pre-workout:
? of Taurine
5g Creatine
? of Baking Soda
5g of BCAA's
2g of Glutamine
I usually train on an empty stomach, either at the end of a fast from the
previous night (lunch right after), or 4 hours after lunch and prior to dinner.
Would this have any affect?
Thanks again, I love reading your articles, even though much of the science
sails over my head.
Kevin
Primalkid September 7, 2012 at 6:41 AM
Look up the intermittent thoughts on intermittent fasting series that Adel did a
while back. It covers IF and breaking the fast and the roles of AMPK, mTOR,
etc. And yes your formula looks fine to me. I personally only take the BCAAs
which take me into a semifasted state since they are insulin stimulating.
However the following exercise session is a natural AMPK stimulus so it
doesn't matter.
Kevin Holleran September 7, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Thanks. If I take this concoction on a fasted/empty stomach, should I skip the
baking soda due to the pH being low or will I still have a benefit?
Sorry to be asking so many questions, thanks for answering.
Primalkid September 7, 2012 at 6:26 PM
Ideally you want to be slightly alkaline (which is why you should always eat
your veggies ;-) but I am unsure wrt baking soda. Hopefully Adel will chime in,
but my guess is that if you want to take baking soda then go for it. Just see
how you feel and go from there. If you start throwing up everywhere or have a
bad stomach ache, then maybe not the best plan.
Prof. Dr. Andro September 9, 2012 at 4:47 AM
the fasting is all he more reason to take the baking Soda, at least in theory it
is... the Taurine up there has still a ? - if you want to take that I suggest ~3g
as for the baking soda, start with 1-2 teaspoons if that doesn't bother you go
ahead and increase the dose
RickP September 19, 2012 at 12:28 AM
I'm one of those who noticed nothing from tyrosine, to Dr. Andro's point.
Prof. Dr. Andro September 19, 2012 at 5:06 AM
probably didn't talk to enough bros about how effective it is to get the placebo
effect into the P<0.05 zone ;)
Daron September 6, 2012 at 7:28 PM
Hopefully this helps and hopefully I do not get intestinal discomfort.
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Prof. Dr. Andro September 6, 2012 at 8:52 PM
I really don't like those tablespoon measures, I mean most people don't have
one of those standardized measuring spoons and if you dont you never know
how heaped those have to be... I usually buy "Kaiser Natron" (obviously not
available in the US), which comes in 50g sachets. Regardless of what size you
have, if its relatively small you can simply try how much 22g is (in my case 1/2
a sachet)
HutchMan September 7, 2012 at 9:28 PM
Prof. Dr. Andro...
So for a 88kg body weight what would you recommend pre workout stack (including baking
soda) first thing in the morn fasted 5X5 protocol trainee.
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Primalkid September 8, 2012 at 12:50 AM
Hutch,
I would say 5-10g BCAA is the only requirement because training in a purely
fasted state is not beneficial.
Read the thread above between Kevin, Adel, and I. That should give you some
ideas.
Prof. Dr. Andro September 9, 2012 at 4:58 AM
In view of the debate I am having with Kamil, here >
http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2012/01/sugar-addicted-or-just-stressed-
out.html?showComment=1347118303346#c3469473572251174586
you may consider using an EAA product instead, although I am not sure about
how much of a thread the BCAA depletes neurotransmitter issue really is for
someone who is not already whacked up (my best bet is VERY LOW).
A good stack to start out with is
200mg of caffeine
5-10g of BCAAs (optionally 5g before 10g intra, if your workouts are long)
2.5g- of creatine monohydrate (+2.5g after the workout)
if you like you can add
3g of taurine
1.5g of beta alanine
when you got energy issue (which should not happen, if your adrenals are
working properly), add
coconut oil, or even
some carbs (you are breaking the fast after the workout anyway)
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and to be honest, even training in a truly fasted state is not so much of a
problem if you are not one of those who will pass out due to low blood glucose
jkeiffer September 10, 2012 at 5:40 AM
Any reason 3gms Creatine and 1 teaspoon Baking Soda with water in the morning wouldn't be
a good idea?
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Prof. Dr. Andro September 10, 2012 at 3:19 PM
no, I don't see one...
Anonymous September 11, 2012 at 5:54 AM
Why not use potassium bicarbonate?
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Prof. Dr. Andro September 11, 2012 at 6:54 AM
if you want to risk fainting, try it... you could combine them at a 3/1 ratio,
maybe but potassium is not exactly what you need in your blood stream, when
you work out, as it will leech from the cells during the workout anyway
Rachid September 13, 2012 at 9:09 AM
From my understanding and from what i've read elsewhere, the goal of baking
soda supplementation is to alcalinize. And if I am correct, potassium
bicarbonate will do the job as well and may help to have a better
sodium/potassium balance?
I am taking approx. 10g with water during workout (I've progressively increased
up to this dose) and I feel good while lifting.
Do you think I should switch to baking soda??
Btw, your site and articles are awesome!
Rachid September 15, 2012 at 5:20 PM
And one more thing:
The benefit of baking soda is coming from its alcalizing properties or I am
wrong?
Bomb Jack September 17, 2012 at 4:26 PM
I follow Rachid about the question: should I avoid potassium?
Until now I used more potassium than sodium pre-/during my workouts and my
days: isn't it better for a healthy sodium/potassium ratio or not? And why
potassium could be harmful?
Prof. Dr. Andro September 18, 2012 at 8:09 PM
sorry, I forgot to answer this question. The thing about potassium is that your
body conserves it very well.
Your loss during exercise is (compared to sodium) minimal, you lose no more
than 100-200 mg potassium per hour and in view of the fact that the potassium
level in your blood will already rise while you work out (potassium is the ion IN
the cell) and your sodium level will decrease (sodium is the ion OUTSIDE of
the cell) you risk to skew the sodium to potassium ratio and end up in a state
of mild or even serious hyperkalemia, which is associated with muscular hyper-
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excitability and electrical impulse disturbances that may cause irregular heart
beat or worse...
that said you are ill-advised focusing solely on potassium bicarbonate, also
because sodium bicarbonate is actually used to "drive" potassium back into
the cells in states of hyperkalemia. You can combine them if you want, but
don't ask me for the optimal ratio... certainly >1 sodium:potassium, though
(around workouts)
Bomb Jack September 19, 2012 at 4:26 PM
...didn't know anything about this, very interesting, thank you Doc.! :-)
Rachid September 19, 2012 at 8:36 AM
Thank you for your answer, it is very instructive and I'll try to combine both in a 3:1 ratio (that's
what is used into rehydradation solutions I think).
One thing that is very surprising is that on the biggest French bodybuilding websites (and only
French ones strangely), they all advice the use of bicarbonate potassium instead of sodium
around workout (with doses up to 20g!) and it is even sold into pills to be more convenient to
take http://www.nutrimuscle.com/bicarbonate-potassium/400/#presentation.
I'm really confident in your knowledge and I don't want to troll but I'm confused.
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Prof. Dr. Andro September 19, 2012 at 11:22 AM
probably an outgrowth of the sodium scare within the BB-world... trust me:
Nothing draws more water than not getting enough sodium. And on BB's and
potassium I suggest you read this case report before you ever trust a
"Bodybuilder's" judgement on anything >
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735675710004274
cogrick2 September 19, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Why are they suggesting the use of bicarbonate potassium? I am suspicious
given the extracellular hyperkalmeia concerns Adel expressed.
cogrick2 September 19, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Adel, I might be reading too fast, but can you help me understand the last paragraph and
graph with respect to growth hormone levels? In particular, you write that the decreased lactic
acid formation is a good thing and then, "Not the least, by virtue of the its ability to trigger the
release of growth hormone." How do I interpret the graph given these sentences? It looks like
mean lactate went down and yet lactate was infused(huh?), and then growth hormone spiked
and dropped precipitously. The drop concerns me. One core problem may be that I do not
understand the boxed language in the figure. Thanks!
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Prof. Dr. Andro September 19, 2012 at 11:24 AM
you need to be aware of the meaning of the greek letter "delta", which is
"change in" when the "delta"-graph goes down this means that lactate is still
increasing as long as it's not going into the negative. If you have some basic
skills in math telling you that this is "delta lactate / delta time" should answer
your question
Prof. Dr. Andro September 19, 2012 at 11:26 AM
if you don't have the math skill read it like that: at 20min you got an increase of
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5 units per time unit, at 40min you got only 1.3 units increase in lactate per
time unit, but this means that the lactate concentration IS STILL RISING
Tomas September 25, 2012 at 3:11 PM
Tried this for a few months. I did notice positive benefits from it (be it placebo effect or not, not
important really), nothing huge but well worth the money. Couldn't stand it though. I've never
had any problem eating boring and tasteless food to get my gains, but 20 g and even 15 g in
the end was more than I could take. The taste was too vile. I remember flinching before taking
it and more or less whenever I thought about it. GI tract didn't love it, either.
But for all of you with iron stomach and determination, go for it! Certainly worth a try.
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Prof. Dr. Andro September 25, 2012 at 7:25 PM
I don't know why some people can't stand the taste, for me it's not an issue.
And in fact, if you mix it with some BCAAs most brands taste actually better. I
must say though that I am not adding 20g into a single glass, but rather
~750ml of water and I don't drink it in one gulp
Rachid November 19, 2012 at 10:52 AM
Sorry to comment an "old" topic but one question is blowing my mind:
For a bodybuilding purpose (hypertrophy), do we know if this muscle alcalinization could be
detrimental because it could remove some stress on the myocites (acidity is a stressor that
belongs to mechanical growth factors like heat and mechanical load).
Thank you
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Prof. Dr. Andro November 19, 2012 at 11:14 AM
if it was you better avoid all beta-alanine and deplete your carnitine levels to
zero, 'cause the H+ buffer in the cell would be even more detrimental ... given
the fact that I am not aware of a single bodybuilder who is "undertraining" the
chances that a systemic buffer will hamper your gains are about zero
Rachid November 20, 2012 at 8:13 AM
I'm still not sure but you've just published that: "COX-2 the inflammatory
muscle builder?" Is it not just the contrary of what you're saying?
Thank you very much for your answer
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