Acid Zapper with Alka-Myte - Athletic pH Balancing, Lactic Acid Reducing, Alkalinizing, USADA Approved Drug-Free Mineral Supplement

How Does pH Balance and Alkalinity Improve Performance and Recovery in Weight Training?

As we age, eat excess protein or not enough alkaline foods, and/or push our bodies doing heavy exercise; excess acid is generated.  What athlete has not felt the acid burn while attempting personal bests?  What if you could increase your power output and do this at lower heart and respiratory rates with reduced blood lactate levels?  Clinical trials have shown that cyclists and cross country skiers independently demonstrated this when using the systemically alkalizing mineral based supplement, Acid Zapper®.

Overview of Acid-Base Balance for Athletes

As our body ages the kidneys, liver and lungs age and lose capacity for waste removal.

1. The skin becomes less effective at transporting perspiration and wastes including acidic ones.
2. Our high protein and refined carbohydrate western diet is net acid producing and over the years pushes our bodies toward low grade chronic acidosis.
3. Exercise produces acids that waste must be removed or managed for optimum results.
4. Heavy exercise can exceed the body’s capacity to benignly control the acid and require it to activate its emergency blood buffers such as:
   1. Extracting calcium from the bones to neutralize acid in the blood (results in high Ca in urine and blood)
   2. Extracting ammonia from amino acids taken from muscles (muscle wasting which generates ammonia breath and ammonia sweat)
5. Osteoporosis is a real threat even for impact sports such as basketball or running and especially for a non-impact sport like cycling. Chronic low grade acidosis (blood pH near bottom of standard range of 7.35 to 7.45) contributes bone loss and the heavy exercise mentioned above exasperates this loss.

Balancing Act: Athletic Performance and pH Health in Top Athletes

Robert Burns, Ph.D.  President, TAMER Laboratories, Inc.

Why competitive and endurance sport athletes need to understand and maintain pH balance

Elite and endurance sport athletes continually push at the boundaries of physics, trying to compress time into ever-smaller increments or beat gravity at its own game. In the process, they often redefine what is “humanly possible,” not only for themselves but, in some cases, for all of us. This article discusses the problem of acidity in endurance sports, and proposes a very powerful solution – alkalizing the body. Discussed are some very attainable methods, through diet and supplementation that can significantly improve the adverse affects of acidity and set the stage for breaking performance barriers. -Ed.

Competitive and endurance sport athletes continually push at the boundaries of physics, trying to compress time into ever-smaller increments or beat gravity at its own game. In the process, they often redefine what is “humanly possible,” not only for themselves but, in some cases, for all of us. Until Lance Armstrong, even the most optimistic team-cycling enthusiast could not have imagined a seven-time Tour de France champion—let alone one who had survived cancer. The impossibility of running a mile in less than four minutes was a widely accepted truth until May 6, 1954 when Roger Bannister did it in three minutes and 59.4 seconds.

As every athlete knows, in the sports world a millisecond or the slightest internal or external physical advantage can mean the difference between victory and defeat, a repeat performance or a new world record or personal best. This is a world where swimmers—and now even some NBA players—routinely shave off their body hair to cut down on a nanosecond of drag. And, unfortunately, sometimes it is a world where athletes destroy their careers, health or reputations trying to dope their way to new physical feats.