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Energy and exercise

Beta-Alanineand Muscle Carnosine

Only one source here so far, and it measured higher muscle Carnosine.

How sure anyone can be

Low certainty, level 2 of 4

Further research is likely to change this.

The numbers reported

No number has been put on this yet. One source recorded only which way the numbers went — for now, that is all we have here.

One source, newest first

What we read is the published abstract, not the full paper, so a blank below may still be printed in the paper itself. A fixed rule worked this out from the source’s own fields. Nobody checked this rating by hand.

  • Systematic review, 2020

    Low certainty, level 2 of 4

    The Muscle Carnosine Response to Beta-Alanine Supplementation: A Systematic Review With Bayesian Individual and Aggregate Data E-Max Model and Meta-Analysis.

    Front Physiol. 2020;11:913. doi:10.3389/fphys.2020.00913. PMID:32922303.

    Number reported
    Not in the abstract
    Which way it went
    Higher
    Likely range
    Not in the abstract
    Source’s own words
    no pooled magnitude of muscle-carnosine change is reported in the abstract; the only number given is a responder rate (99.3% of participants responded, 95% CrI 96.2-100) from the authors' own individual-participant dataset (n = 99), which is not an effect size on carnosine
    Who was studied
    Adult
    Compared with
    no supplementation / pre-supplementation baseline
    Amount taken
    Not in the abstract
    For how long
    Not in the abstract
    Disagreement between studies
    Not in the abstract
    Kind of record
    Journal article
    How this rating was reachedstarts at High, 2 steps down: risk of bias and imprecision
    1. Starts at High
    2. Risk of bias brought it down to Moderatethe abstract reports no risk-of-bias or quality appraisal, so study limitations cannot be ruled outNot in the abstract
    3. Imprecision brought it down to Lowthe abstract reports no confidence interval for the estimateNot in the abstract
    4. Ends at Low2 steps down.
    Checked, nothing to step it down for
    indirectness
    Inconsistency
    No disagreement reported, and no count of studies behind it

    Imprecision stops at the first check that applies; others may apply too.

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    Read the abstract on PubMed

What is still missing from these readings

  • No number at all, only which way it went.
  • One gives no likely range, so how precise that number is is unknown.
  • One do not say how many people took part.
  • Amount taken — Not in the abstract.
  • For how long — Not in the abstract.

Something nobody wrote down is never a zero and never a guess.

Still to read for Beta-Alanine

One of the eight things on our list for Beta-Alanine has no reading here yet:

  • Cycling Power

Still to read means nobody here has got to it, not that it was tried and did nothing or that no research exists. A pairing on no list is not a gap: we never set out to read it.

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