• Moss J

• Acid-Base Equilibrium
• Acidosis
• Muscle Proteins
• Potassium, Dietary

In the previous five newsletters, three have been about the health risk of low-grade, chronic metabolic acidosis, primarily related to a low potassium/high acid-based diet and two have been about the importance of muscle and dietary protein optimization. While, in these newsletters, I was writing about the subjects in isolation, is there, in fact, a relationship between the two? This question occurred to me while I was reading the recently published paper "Alkalization with potassium bicarbonate improves glutathione status and protein kinetics in young volunteers during 21-day bed rest" by Biolo et al, which I will review shortly. However, the topic of the relationship between protein/muscle status and acid/alkaline balance was so interesting to me that I decided to do a literature search and see if I could find additional publications on the subject. Fortunately, to my delight, I found several other papers, many of which I am going to also review in this forum.

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