Beta-Alanine and Improved Exercise Performance

• Sodium bicarbonate and beta-alanine supplementation: Is combining both better than either alone? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2024
  • Review · n = 243
  • Biology of sport 41(3)
  • • Terence Curran-Bowen
    • André Guedes da Silva
    • Gabriel Barreto
    • John Buckley
    • Bryan Saunders

  • PubMed: 38952910
  • DOI: 10.5114/biolsport.2024.132997

  1 Insight on

  • Improved Exercise Performance

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  there was a beneficial effect for the combination of BA and SB (SMD = 0.32, 95% CI: 0.07; 0.57, p = 0.02, tau2 = 0, tau = 0, I2 = 0.0%).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  any dose