Is Bicarb ruining the sport ?

Even if this is the case which athlete is going to eat a large batch of cookies 20min out from a major race?

Yes, 100%. No different than buying good shoes, hiring a dietician and buying quality food, buying a Garmin for training, training with clubs in the off season and traveling to elite meets. If your kid is good and looking to break through to the next level and you can afford it you try to provide all of the support and (legal) resources you can.

That makes no sense. It takes the Maurten bicarb at least 90 minutes to get into your body.

I do all of the referenced for my son except introduction of substances beyond his mega man multivitamin. I am not comfortable buying this product for him with the limited knowledge i have today. To each their own but i am very careful about that.

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Tums are calcium carbonate, not sodium bicarbonate. Calcium carbonate is often used as a placebo in bicarb research.

I've researched bicarb over the past 35 years and have published about 6 papers and a book chapter on the topic and find it a bit ironic that it has recently made a comeback. Supposedly putting it in the hydrogel eliminates the gastrointestinal distress. However, I have only had one subject in all of my published research that experienced this, and that was after the fact, not before. The 100% key to eliminating the gastrointestinal issues is to make sure that you are well hydrated beforehand and that you consume it with a lot of water. This dilutes it enough to minimize/eliminate the gi problem.

A few proposed mechanisms for how it exerts its effect. 1) it acts to enhance the extracellular buffering capacity (arterialized plasma pH is increased by about 0.1-0.15 units). Too much bicarb and the pH goes up too high and this definitely causes negative side-effects. 2) it enhances the efflux of lactate out of the cell, thereby maintaining optimal muscle pH. Almost all bicarb studies will demonstrate higher plasma lactate levels with bicarb loading.

Save yourself the money and prepare your own loading dose by using 00 gelatin capsules (get them on Amazon) at a precise dosage of 0.3g/kg of body weight (This literally costs about 50 cents compared to $20 for the gel) and consume it 90 minutes before you start your 30 min warmup. Any activity that has a high intensity, high acid producing component over 1-4 minutes is a candidate for bicarb. This can be 400/800m or it could be a 10k with a sustained 2-3 min at the end. My kid does MMA at a fairly high level and bicarb fits his scenario perfectly with 3, 3 min rounds. Especially in the last 3 minutes. Olympic boxing and wrestling...absolutely!

I would be stunned if 80% of the top 10 800m runners were not using it. It is way to cheap, it's legal, and if you do it correctly it has minimal to no side effects. Does it work?... it is debatable; however, the evidence from 40+ years of research is pretty solid. For those elites that have not used it, I'm looking forward to when they do. May only give them 0.1, 0.2 or 0.3 second improvement but...

BTW - sure fire way to get sick is to mix it with water/gatorade and drink it down. This is just drinking salt water. DON'T DO THIS! Take it in gelatin capsules and follow it with lots of water. It will get out of the stomach and get absorbed in the small intestine. Minimal to no side effects.

No. Bicarb isn't DOING anything.

Salazar is probably foaming at the mouth because he didn't think about telling Galen he rubbed him down with bicarb instead of nandrolone.

Wake up, people. One thing cannot account for all these drops. It's a culmination of super tracks, super spikes, better peaking, and better fields (some cynics-me-will also say better drugs and more corrupt doping policies have some to do with this as well)

Decades of scientific research says you're wrong. But you're a "master of none" so I'm not surprised you don't know that.

Do you think the one from Amazon “Healthy Kidney” would work just as well by taking one a day?

The Maurten and the 6D requires loading and measuring body weight, seems a bit more involved.

How hard is it to know how much you weigh? That's actually a stumbling block for you?

Ha ha you’re right. Just being a little scary. Just extra cautious about what is put in the body. When i see things talking about loading or you need to measure it out and or consider spreading it out over 8 hours and may suffer intestinal issues i start thinking damn can i just take one and be good?

lol my baad forget what i said

The body uses acid to block the effectiveness of muscle contraction by blocking calcium. This is a defense mechanism to keep the body from going to dangerous levels.

So the question I have is how dangerous is this?

I definitely recommend sticking with white maeng da for workouts…I take it everyday. I accidentally ordered red maeng da once and quickly fell asleep.

For 20 years I’ve taken pre workout powders containing caffeine; beta-alanine, l-citrulline, creatine everyday and nothing bad has happened to me yet.

For 2+ years I’ve taken white strain kratom everyday and nothing bad has happened yet.

I think the more important question is: are they chocolate double chip cookies being baked and can I have a few?

You missed the point that I am making. What is the cause of acidosis. Address that issue first insted of repeating the same old fanciful solution. It's ridiculous. T

Wow. That's a long time. Old fashioned baking soda should be a lot faster.