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Re: [RC] baking soda for muscles? - heidiThe thought is that he has some lactic acid "thing" going on. <snip> My questions are: has anyone else encountered this problem? If so, what have you found? What supplements work best? What about baking soda? No, no, no---no baking soda! Human runners sometimes get acidotic and have trouble with lactic acid buildup. Likewise, the baking soda has been an old remedy for tied-up sprint horses. Not so in distance horses working aerobically. They are actually alkalotic, so the baking soda actually would tend to exacerbate the problem. Check his whole blood selenium levels for starters, and see if a blood panel right after work has a high CPK or not. (Note--not all labs--particularly human labs--will routinely give you a CPK unless you specifically ask for it!) Heidi ============================================================ Arabians were bred for years primarily as a war horse and those requirements are similar to what we do today with endurance riding. ~ Homer Saferwiffle ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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