Beta-Alanine

“creatine, beta-alanine, that don't understand you need a certain dose of each one of those ingredients for them to be effective. You know, I feel the same thing going on in the biohacking space.”

“Yes, you can still, right? You can still get benefits from it. Something like beta-alanine, for example, right? Which helps, it helps buffer acidity in the muscle to help prevent fatigue, right?”

“Because of what it does. Beta-alanine. Yes. Beta-alanine I like taking before. And what's the dosage for that? You want to get about around three to four grams per day.”

“And so I'll typically recommend that one either earlier in the day or before they work out. Okay. Beta alanine. Things like that. So if the FDA were to outlaw all but three to five supplements tomorrow, which would be the which would be the three to five that you'd say these are kind of must-haves?”

“Sounds like creatine is one of those. Okay. Top of the list. Okay. Definitely creatine. Beta alanine. Safety and safety and effectiveness. Beta-alanine for an athlete, I would probably say yes. For someone who's just looking for health and fitness, I don't think it's that critical.”

“I'm going to take fiber there, or I'm generally not taking it as much when I'm home because I can control my diet. Performance enhancers are things like creatine, are things like beta-alanine, sodium bicarbonate. So depending on what fitness training goal I have at the moment, I'm going to alter those based on if I'm looking for muscle growth or endurance or what are you taking right now?”

“Not all of them are good, but a lot of them are really good. Here's another one that's really good for working out. Beta-alanine. You ever take that? No. Phenomenal. Phenomenal. Look, I take everything else. It makes you tingle, though. It makes your skin almost like itch. Like iodine. You ever take iodine? No. Iodine.”

“I would prefer you to get all your stuff from food. But when food is limited, for a bunch of different reasons, now we can use supplements to backfill vitamins, nutrients, minerals, and a bunch of other stuff. That is our top line performance enhancement. When your physiology is in a healthier spot, it will perform better. So we can get into beta alanine and other things for sure.”

“Okay. Yeah. But again, we're speculating here because we, we don't know where we have mechanism. We understand at least roughly how a beta alanine or sodium bicarbonate are working or caffeine. I don't actually know. So I should back up. I don't know the answer to your question.”

“Really simple strategy with this one. So enzymes work in a certain pH range, right? If you come too acidic inside of a muscle, we have a hard time running any metabolic process. Aerobic, anaerobic, strength, it doesn't really matter, right? Contracting muscle power. We start running into acidic environments, you start running into problems.”

“Acidic is not the problem there. So beta alanine is something that you would take chronically. You will feel an acute effect, certainly at somewhat of a higher dose.”

“But you will see a pretty classic. CrossFit would be a great example. Like you basically couldn't engineer a supplement better for acute or for CrossFit performance outside of beta alanine. And as I mentioned, it's been around a really long time.”

“this is an acute effect. And this is definitely something I would generally only use on training days where beta alanine you could take and probably should take on non-training days because it takes a while for that to storage to come up. creatine, same thing. If you're going to use a sodium bicarbonate or equivalent, this is only like a pre-workout strategy.”