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During maximal effort, your muscles flood with hydrogen ions and your blood pH crashes. That acidosis — not your fitness — is what forces you to slow down. Sodium bicarbonate raises your buffer so the pH drop comes slower. You hold harder efforts, longer.
Bicarb keeps your blood closer to 7.1–7.2 during hard efforts instead of crashing to 6.9. That gap is the difference between dying in the third lap and holding your pace to the line.
Read the science →| Brand | Price / serving | Hydrogel | Ships US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maurten Bicarb System | $17.50 | ✓ | ✓ |
| bicarb.shop | $6.75 | ✗ | ✓ |
| FLYCARB | $6.10 | ✓ | ✗ |
| BICARB.NET | $5.00 | ✓ | ✓ |
A 60g sachet — 160 calories, 40g carbs, 19g of buffering power. Scroll through every gram.
Forms the hydrogel matrix that protects the bicarb — and fuels the effort with fast-absorbing carbohydrate.
The reason it works. Raises blood bicarbonate so your muscles hold out longer before acid forces you to slow.
Paired 2:1 with maltodextrin so your gut absorbs more carbohydrate per minute than glucose alone allows.
Actual fruit, ground fresh. The thing that makes 19 grams of baking soda genuinely drinkable.
Turns water into a thick protective gel that shields the bicarb from stomach acid until the small intestine.
Food-grade anti-caking agent. Keeps the blend free-flowing. That's the entire ingredient list.
"Ran a 4:35 in practice two days after my first bag. My legs just didn't die in the third lap the way they usually do."
"Two months on bicarb before hard sessions and I tested at 4.2 w/kg. That's a different category of rider."
Batch 1 sold out at Paly Track. We're heads-down on the next version — and it's a serious upgrade.
2.0 moves to enteric-coated pellets — no mixing, no gel texture, indefinite shelf life, and the cleanest GI tolerance possible. Same buffering science, engineered the way the best products in the world deliver it.