Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett.

And I'm Juliette.

And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast.

This episode of the Rayleigh State podcast is brought to you by our friends at Momentus.

Today I'm going to talk about one of the things that Momentus has done, which is make bicarbonate loading possible.

If you have been an athlete for a minute, you remember the old protocols where you could take a bunch of sodium bicarbonate.

And what would happen was that you would be able to buffer higher levels of circulating lactate,

which would mean that theoretically in your muscles, you could perform more work without

sort of having that burn slow you down. And we knew it was a neuromuscular aspect. In fact,

let me quote Brad Wilkins here as we kind of talk about it. As the first line of defense

for preserving acid-based balance during exercise bicarbonate is a critically important

electrolyte for optimally neuromuscular, optimizing neuromuscular function. In fact, over 40 years of

scientific research has overwhelmingly supported the benefit of sodium bicarbonate ingestion for

improving acid-based balance.

The problem is always that there's been a gastrointestinal distress as a common side effect.

Well, it turns out, guess what?

Momentus figured out how to make bicarbonate an easy thing to add to your training through a lotion.

So they invented this thing called PR lotion, and it's the first and only topical lotion to deliver sodium bicarbonate directly through the skin, which means you get to go

around the gut, which means you can tolerate higher levels of work with less delayed onset muscle

soreness. So the way I use it in my own practice is that I use it on big big efforts so when I'm

going long or I know I have huge intervals that's the day where I say hey maybe I can get a

little bit more work done in here so don't take my word for it take a look at the thousands of

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