ReviewSports medicine - open2016
Mechanistic Insights into the Efficacy of Sodium Bicarbonate Supplementation to Improve Athletic Performance.
Review in Sports medicine - open, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The Impact of Sodium Bicarbonate on Performance in Response to Exercise Duration in Athletes: A Systematic Review.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Dose-dependent effects of sodium bicarbonate supplementation combined with sprint interval training on performance adaptations in basketball players: a randomized placebo-controlled trial.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2026Trial
- Effect of sodium bicarbonate on performance and markers of kidney and gastrointestinal injury during repeated sprints in the heat.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Trial
- The effect of sodium bicarbonate mini-tablets in a carbohydrate hydrogel on prolonged high-intensity cycling performance and metabolism in acute normobaric hypoxia.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Trial
- Combined glycerol and sodium bicarbonate elicits improvements in fluid retention and blood buffering capacity.PloS one · 2026Trial
- Exploring the effects of outdoor physical work in the heat, with or without sodium bicarbonate supplementation, on markers of acute kidney injury.Physiological reports · 2025Trial
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- Sodium bicarbonate induces alkalosis, but improves high-intensity cycling performance only when participants expect a beneficial effect: a placebo and nocebo study.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Trial
- Naturally Bicarbonated Water Supplementation Does Not Improve Anaerobic Cycling Performance or Blood Gas Parameters in Active Men and Women.Nutrients · 2023Trial
- Supplementation of caffeine and sodium bicarbonate together could not improve performance and performance-related factors in CrossFit participants: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2023Trial
- Short-term co-ingestion of creatine and sodium bicarbonate improves anaerobic performance in trained taekwondo athletes.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2021Trial
- Greater lactate accumulation following an acute bout of high-intensity exercise in males suppresses acylated ghrelin and appetite postexercise.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2020Trial
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- Caffeine and sodium bicarbonate supplementation alone or together improve karate performance.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2019Trial
- Sodium citrate supplementation enhances tennis skill performance: a crossover, placebo-controlled, double blind study.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2019Trial
- Enhanced 400-m sprint performance in moderately trained participants by a 4-day alkalizing diet: a counterbalanced, randomized controlled trial.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2018Trial
- The Effect of a New Sodium Bicarbonate Loading Regimen on Anaerobic Capacity and Wrestling Performance.Nutrients · 2018Trial
- Sodium bicarbonate supplementation improves severe-intensity intermittent exercise under moderate acute hypoxic conditions.European journal of applied physiology · 2018Trial
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Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
A large proportion of empirical research and reviews investigating the ergogenic potential of sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO
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