yakuza01 said:I've heard it's supposed to help you a little bit with the acids generated while working out. Is there any truth to that?
Urban said:as an added bonus, if you eat enough baking soda in combination with enough honey, you can get botulism and die. HOORAY!
yakuza01 said:Thanks for the links Grady, interesting read. Don't worry Urban, it's not like I would ingest a whole box of baking soda or that I have any illusions of running a triatlon just based on this. Assuming it actually works, I would think the benefits are minor.
Urban said:lets not justify the injestion of baking soda here, cause if you do somebody somewhere is going to read it and think "alright, so it does help neutralize lactic acid." no matter what you said. Here's what will happen when you eat baking soda: it will go down to your stomach, nutralize some acid there, and that's the end of it. as an added bonus, if you eat enough baking soda in combination with enough honey, you can get botulism and die. HOORAY!
Urban said:lets not justify the injestion of baking soda here, cause if you do somebody somewhere is going to read it and think "alright, so it does help neutralize lactic acid." no matter what you said. Here's what will happen when you eat baking soda: it will go down to your stomach, nutralize some acid there, and that's the end of it. as an added bonus, if you eat enough baking soda in combination with enough honey, you can get botulism and die. HOORAY!
Grady said:The effect of Bicarbonate loading is minor, and short term, but exists.
http://www.sportsci.org/traintech/buffer/lrm.htm
http://www.humankinetics.com/sdsu/content/viewnotes.cfm?sid=30
Old thread, and my first post, but to add a link regarding performance and bicarbonate ingestion: http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0086.htmUrban said:lets not justify the injestion of baking soda here, cause if you do somebody somewhere is going to read it and think "alright, so it does help neutralize lactic acid." no matter what you said. Here's what will happen when you eat baking soda: it will go down to your stomach, nutralize some acid there, and that's the end of it. as an added bonus, if you eat enough baking soda in combination with enough honey, you can get botulism and die. HOORAY!
When it comes to buffering lactic acid, the body actually uses bicarbonate to do it. Stomach issues aside, supplementing is proven to work, if only a little. You did clink and read the links, right? Anyways, here's another good link: http://www.1fast400.com/?ingredients_id=51Girljock said:Especially when there is a ton of other shit out there to attain what you want.
MikeMartial said:When it comes to buffering lactic acid, the body actually uses bicarbonate to do it. Stomach issues aside, supplementing is proven to work, if only a little. You did clink and read the links, right? Anyways, here's another good link: http://www.1fast400.com/?ingredients_id=51
I was onhand at a recent testing of potential recruits for our fire dept; this took place at the university, in the human physiology lab. One of the lab testers was a wealth of knowledge, being a grad in kinesiology and human physiology. I picked his brain a bit about this issue.
His opinion, which I put a fair bit of merit on, was that supplementing with sodium bicarb would significantly buffer lactic acid---which in turn would decrease the precieved fatigue usually associated which increased lactic acid levels. But it wouldn't directly affect energy output, or increase V02 max in any way.
I'm skeptical of the "high-alkaline diet", because when it comes to adjusting pH, diet can only do so much. Seems to be popular with MMA athletes, though, pro and amatuer alike.
What is this "ton of other shit" that you mentioned?