7 Surprising Baking Soda Benefits for Your Hair Skin and Body

5. Boosts Your Workout

Many endurance and high intensity athletes use baking soda. Research shows it can help sustain peak output longer. Intense exercise produces lactic acid causing burning and lowering cellular pH which brings on fatigue. Baking soda with its higher pH can buffer some of that acidity and may extend performance. One study found participants lasted about 4.5 minutes longer than those without it. At maximum effort that added window matters. For casual sessions it might seem minor

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