Sodium bicarbonate can act as a buffer and help improve time to exhuastion in high intensity exercises. The main issue with this supplement is GI problems, but some companies, like Maurten have been able to largely mitagate this with new techonolgy.
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This article is about the effects of sodium bicarbonate and performance. Sodium Bicarb improves perfomance due to its physiological effects. Such as, decreasing the acditiy in working muscles to lengthen high intensity exercise duration. Over this past track and feild season, I consumed maurten bicarb a performance supplemetation and experienced these explicit effects. Take a look at this study to learn more! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34503527/
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