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Beta-Alanine is a lactic acid buffer that may help increase training capacity, allowing you to train harder and longer. Weight training and athletic activities cause your body to produce lactic acid, causing muscle pH to drop and become more acidic, which means your muscles ability to perform at its peak level decreases. Beta Alanine works by increasing muscle carnosine levels, a muscle buffer that soaks up the extra hydrogen ions created from lactic acid. Much of Beta-Alanines beneficial effects come through increasing the synthesis of carnosine, a powerful intracellular buffer. Carnosine is found in both type 1 and type 2 muscle fibers, though in significantly higher concentrations in type 2 fibers (the fibers we use in high intensity strength workouts, and which are most responsive to growth). To function effectively, muscle cells rely on buffers like carnosine to avoid becoming acidic (low pH) during exercise.
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