WERE ANY TESTS OR RESEARCH CARRIED ON THE EFFECT OF BICARBONATE OF SODA ON HUMAN ATHLETES?
In 1990 it was reported there was convincing anecdotal evidence that bicarbonate administration would improve 400 metre human running times by about 7 to 10%, however, under controlled conditions official tests were carried out on rowers at Launceston, Tasmania by the State Institute of Technology and the results were reported in the Australian Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. The results indicated that in 6 minutes of rowing, the rowers that had been given an administration of sodium bicarbonate were able to row 48 metres further than those rowers on placebos. 8. WAS RESEARCH CARRIED OUT ON HARNESS HORSES? Prof. Irvine in a 1991 paper presented to the World Trotting Conference in Auckland reported “Bicarbonate dosing has been used successfully to counteract the effects of strenuous exercise in animals and man according to papers published in scientific journals for the last 60 years…” he goes on to say “several of the older papers gave inconsistent results between horses an
