Dr. Andy Galpin

So high intensity of strength training, again, I just said not super relevant because you're doing two reps.

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 need three to five weeks for this to build up intracellularly before it makes a difference.

And so much like caffeine, or creatine rather, unlike caffeine, this takes a while for you to dose it.

So you can do a bunch of things to mitigate that, but you will see a pretty classic effect

that CrossFit would be a great example.

Like you couldn't, 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.

It's just an amino acid.

It's not a stimulant.

It won't affect energy.

You can take it right now.

And again, like you wouldn't notice, you wouldn't be like, oh, I'm fired up and ready to go.

You wouldn't feel anything different, but you would just feel the burn is not as bad as your training.

Man, I'm blanking on dosage right now, to be honest with you.

Back in the day, we would say this is an iosine dump.

But that doesn't seem to be the case.

There's actually a couple of papers that came out

it seems to be something to do with sensory input.