Betaine, Sodium Bicarbonate, and Evaluating New Research as it Develops

The Stronger By Science Podcast

Stronger By Science

Strength, Muscle, Eric Trexler, Supplements, Powerlifting, Comedy, Bodybuilding, Physique, Stronger By Science, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Strength Sports, Nutrition, Greg Nuckols, Evidence-based Fitness, Weightlifting

4.6 • 950 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode starts off with a Good News segment and some brand new Feats of Strength. After that, Eric discusses his most recent SBS article about Betaine, and addresses some of the feedback that the article has received. This segment opens up into a broader discussion about how to evaluate a new body of research as it’s developing. Topics include conflicts of interest, how much evidence is required to justify experimentation, and when we can confidently conclude that an intervention simply doesn’t work. Some historical examples are discussed along the way, with some background information about how the steroid, creatine, caffeine, and citrulline malate literature developed over time. After that, Greg and Eric share a quick Research Roundup segment, followed by some off-topic questions To Play Them Out.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Stronger by Science podcast.
0:04.0	Today's show begins with a good news segment followed by a very impressive feats of strength segment.
0:09.0	After that we have a pretty long discussion about a recent Stronger by Science article that got published.
0:15.0	The article itself was about B-Tain supplementation and we do talk specifically about the conclusions
0:21.1	of that article, but we also have a much broader conversation
0:24.5	the body of B-Tain research is really just getting started there's not nearly
0:29.2	enough evidence to have very very strong conclusion.
0:32.6	So our broader conversation talks a little bit about what it takes for us to decide
0:37.7	that something is worth trying, whether it's a training strategy or a supplement,
0:41.8	whatever it is. We also talked a little bit about how much evidence we need in order for us to determine that something definitely doesn't work.
0:50.0	Overall it ended up being a very, very constructive conversation about some kind of big picture
0:54.9	theoretical aspects of how we interpret research as it comes out.
1:00.3	After that we have a brand new research round-up segment. We also answer a few off-topic questions from our fireside chat series and that does it for this episode.
1:09.0	As always, thank you very much for listening and we hope you enjoy the show.
1:14.5	Welcome back to the Stronger by Science Podcast. This is your host Eric Trexler today I am
1:18.0	joined by a very special temporary guest host named Greg knuckles
1:21.0	Greg thank you for joining me. Thanks for having me on.
1:23.3	Quick note, a little bit of housekeeping here before we get into the content with this
1:27.2	episode. We are finishing out our season pretty soon here.
1:30.8	So today's episode is going up June 18th and then we've got one episode after that on July 2nd.
1:38.0	And after that we are in our summer break. So we are planning to come back probably somewhere in the August September time frame
1:46.7	That's the plan for now, but we won't be gone the whole time so in the interim period there we will put out some random audio content here and there.
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