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Alkaline Diet - 4-9 Days Suffice to Boost Urinary pH, Boost Time to Exhaustion (21%) + Fat Oxid. During Exercise (10%)

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Many of you may now shake their heads and say: Well I am already eating such a diet... even though, I didn't do it for its alkalizing effects. Good for you! As a SuppVersity  reader you're familiar with the multifaceted benefits of sodium bicarbonate . Evidence that it will improve your performance , even when taken chronically, however, is still lacking. With a recently published study by Susan L. Caciano and colleagues we do yet have more evidence that this could be the case even though, we're not talking about bicarbonate supplementation, technically: In her study, Caciano tried to experimentally confirm the previous cross-sectional findings (Niekamp. 2012) suggesting that even a short term (4-9 days) low-PRAL, i.e. highly alkaline diet, would result in a higher respiratory exchange ratio during maximal exercise as compared to the SAD acidic diet. You can learn more about bicarbonate and pH-buffers at the SuppVersity The Hazards of Acidosis Build Bigger ...
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Low Grade Metabolic Acidosis May Eat Away Your Bones and Blow Up Your Belly Via Empowering Glucocorticoids!

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The way we eat and live is not just obesogenic it is also acidogenic... or is the former just a consequence of the latter?  I've written about the nasty effects of low grade metabolic acidosis which include calcium loss and brittle bones, nitrogen / protein loss and decreased protein synthesis, impaired growth hormone and IGF-1 production and more in a 2013 SuppVersity Science Round-Up  ( read it ). For you, as a SuppVersity veteran who's read this and related articles , it should thus not be surprising that scientists from the  German Aerospace Center in Cologne were now able to establish a new, mechanistic link between the "long-term ingestion of habitually acidifying western diets may constitute an independent risk factor for bone degradation and cardiometabolic diseases" (Buehlmeier. 2015). As Judith Buehlmeier and her colleagues point out, we have long been aware of the ill effects of low-grade metabolic acidosis (LGMA), as induced by high dietary acid lo...
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0.3g/kg BW NaHCO3 Power Up Your Most Intense Workouts by Helping You to Maintain Maximal Muscle Activation

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Planning to fry your legs? Ingest 0.3g/kg sodium bicarbonate before your workout! It has long been speculated that the increased concentration of protons /H+) during fatiguing exercise may contribute to increased activation of group III and IV afferents and subsequently reduced central drive. Surprisingly, though, the significance of this process has still to be confirmed in exercising humans. In a recent study, Jason C. Siegler nd Paul Marshall from the School of Science and Health at the  University of Western Sydney  determined whether inducing metabolic alkalosis differentially affects descending central drive after fatiguing exercise and whether this effect may, in part, be explained by attenuating group III and IV afferent firing. You can learn more about bicarbonate and pH-buffers at the SuppVersity The Hazards of Acidosis Build Bigger Legs W/ Bicarbonate HIIT it Hard W/ NaCHO3 Creatine + BA = Perfect Match Bicarb Buffers Creatine Beta ...
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