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Why Top Olympic Athletes Use Baking Soda to Boost Performance
There are also lingering questions about optimal dosage (the study used 0.3 grams per kilogram of body weight) and timing (which was individualized based on blood tests to determine the peak response time, with a typical delay of roughly two hours between ingestion and time trial).
Why Top Olympic Athletes Use Baking Soda to Boost Performance
The 14 cyclists in the study did three 40-kilometer time trials: one for practice, one with Maurten baking soda, and one with a placebo that was designed to look and taste like Maurten but didn’t contain any baking soda. The data shows that, as expected, blood pH was increased in the baking soda condition (meaning it became less acidic). Most of the other variables were unchanged: heart rate was the same, perceived effort was the same, the pacing pattern was the same. But they could tolerate higher levels of lactate throughout the test—and, most importantly, they were faster.