Malic acid supplement, sumac

[jnmaciuch]

Thanks for the updates @MeSci! It’s great that you managed to avoid PEM those days. I had similar experiences—outings which reliably triggered PEM for me suddenly didn’t anymore if I took malic acid ahead of time. I’m glad that the sumac seems to be helping you even though you have to balance the negative effects.

 

[winterwren]

@jnmaciuch I just came across a paper about about dietary malic acid enhancing oxidative muscle fiber types (slow twitch fiber that came up in Wust’s research) that I thought was really interesting. I’m not sure if you’ve mentioned this before because I can’t read through this whole thread. I’ll attempt to post a link below.

I’d googled malic acid fiber because I’ve been taking sumac once in a while and it seems to have a stimulant effect on me, hard to say if it’s actually energy though. I took it with a high fiber supplement yesterday and didn’t feel as much hence the search.

Dietary Malic Acid Supplementation Induces Skeletal Muscle Fiber-Type Transition of Weaned Piglets and Further Improves Meat Quality of Finishing Pigs - PMC

The aim of this study was to investigate effects of dietary malic acid supplementation on skeletal muscle fiber-type transition during nursery period and the subsequent meat quality of finishing pigs. Results showed that malic acid supplementation ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[jnmaciuch]

@jnmaciuch I just came across a paper about about dietary malic acid enhancing oxidative muscle fiber types (slow twitch fiber that came up in Wust’s research) that I thought was really interesting. I’m not sure if you’ve mentioned this before because I can’t read through this whole thread. I’ll attempt to post a link below.

I’d googled malic acid fiber because I’ve been taking sumac once in a while and it seems to have a stimulant effect on me, hard to say if it’s actually energy though. I took it with a high fiber supplement yesterday and didn’t feel as much hence the search.

Dietary Malic Acid Supplementation Induces Skeletal Muscle Fiber-Type Transition of Weaned Piglets and Further Improves Meat Quality of Finishing Pigs - PMC

The aim of this study was to investigate effects of dietary malic acid supplementation on skeletal muscle fiber-type transition during nursery period and the subsequent meat quality of finishing pigs. Results showed that malic acid supplementation ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Thanks for the link, that’s interesting!

 

[Alinda]

Im wondering if it may only work for people that, for some reason, notice symptoms in let's say, less then 5 hours after activity? Does it only seem to work for people with immediate PEM?

 

[jnmaciuch]

Im wondering if it may only work for people that, for some reason, notice symptoms in let's say, less then 5 hours after activity? Does it only seem to work for people with immediate PEM?

Good question—that seems to not be the case for @MeSci who reported usually experiencing PEM several days after activity. But I don’t know for sure about others.