Micro Article - Managing Your Body's Acidity

Why Managing Your Body's Acidity is Key to Better Performance (and Recovery)

We usually think about hydration, nutrition, and pacing when it comes to endurance or training performance. But there’s an invisible factor that could be holding you back without you even realizing it: excess body acidity.

What Does Excess Acidity Mean?

Your body produces acids every day - from the foods you eat, the air you breathe, even from intense exercise.
Normally, your body keeps your blood pH within a very narrow, slightly alkaline range.

But your tissues, joints, muscles, and bones can still suffer from chronic low-grade acidity when your buffering systems are overloaded.

Common lifestyle factors that contribute:

• High intake of coffee, wine, and animal proteins
• Low intake of fruits and vegetables
• Chronic stress
• Intense exercise sessions

Ever seen those ads where someone’s drinking coffee straight out of the plunger? That’s a perfect example - delicious but acidifying.

Over time, your body must borrow minerals (like calcium, magnesium, potassium) to neutralize that acid. Where does it get them from?

• Your bones
• Your joints
• Your muscles

Leaving you more prone to:

• Fatigue
• Brain fog
• Muscle cramps
• Joint stiffness
• Reduced performance

The Science Behind Alkalizing and Performance

Multiple studies have shown that alkalizing the body before exercise can delay the onset of fatigue. One study using citrate-based alkalizers (like Citro-Soda) showed that buffering the body before events helped athletes increase the time to exhaustion significantly .

Why?
Because exercise produces lactic acid. If your body is better buffered, it takes longer for acidity to reach a point where it causes fatigue and muscle shutdown.

However - not all alkalizers are created equal.

• Citro-Soda and similar products are great for short-term heartburn relief.
• But they’re high in sugar, high in sodium, and lack key minerals needed for long-term metabolic health.

They don’t replenish what your body loses during exercise.
They just neutralize acid temporarily.