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Aspartate+NaHCO3 Maintain Muscle Contractility: Plus 14% Rate of Force Development, Minus 37% Ammonia Post HIT

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The combination of aspartate + bicarbonate may make an involuntary rest phase on the floor of the gym obsolete.  It has been while that sodium bicarbonate , aka  NaHCO3 , or (pure) baking soda has made the SuppVersity news. The ergogenic aid recently made the TOP-list of "supplements with good to strong evidence of achieving benefits to performance when used in specific scenarios" in the published "IOC consensus statement: dietary supplements and the high-performance athlete" ( Maughan 2018 ) - a short list in which bicarbonate is listed next to caffeine , creatine , nitrates , and beta-alanine , and a list which doesn't include aspartate as a putative congenial synergist, yet.   Aspartate , a salt or ester of aspartic acid is a nonessential amino acid that has a central role in hepatic glyconeogenesis as it is the substrate to the aspartate aminotransferase  enzyme in the liver , an enzyme of which you know that it is significantly elevated by (intense...
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Potassium-Magnesium Aspartate, an Overlooked Endurance Enhancer? Acute 100% Increase in Time to Full Exhaustion

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1952, Italian Fausto Coppi is drenched with water by a fan during the golden years of the Tour. Question: Can the topical application of K & Mg do the same magic? Answer: That's very  unlikely, ... What sounds like a supplement producer was trying to sell his product with a sponsored study is, in fact, the gist of a 1968 study from the Departments of Clinical Physiology and Internal Medicine at the venerable Karolinska Institute  in Stockholm, Sweden (Ahlborg. 1968). The authors' conclusion that "[a]fter administration of potassium-magnesium-aspartate [KMgA] the capacity for prolonged exercise increased about 50 per cent" (Ahlborg. 1968) can thus not be discarded as marketing babble. And, before we decide whether it's too good to be true, I'd suggest we take a closer look at the way the data was generated before we either (a) discard it as outdated or (b) get totally excited for nothing. Mineral water will contain some K and Mg, too - and it will...
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Are You Afraid that the Fructose Boogieman Clogs Up Your Liver? Citrulline or Alanine, Glycine, Proline, Histidine and Aspartate Mix Will Protect You + Maybe Lean You Out

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If you belong to the people who simply cannot stay away from HFCS foods and beverages, you may be happy to hear that the equivalent of as little as 10g citrulline or NEAAs in your diet may do much more than "just" fully prevent its negative effects on your liver. You will probably remember from previous articles I wrote that NAFLD, or rather the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, is one of the earliest markers of metabolic syndrome and beginning type II diabetes. In the Western obesity societies in North America and Europe, NAFLD is among the most common causes of chronic liver disease and its prevalence is increasing rampantly (Marchesini. 2001). In spite of the fact that its development is most strongly linked to the consumption of a generally unhealthy, energetically dense diet, there are several lines of evidence which suggest that the ingestion of exorbitant amounts of fast-digesting fructose from high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) sweetened beverages ...
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