{"id":20,"date":"2008-11-23T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T23:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:19:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:19:27","slug":"betaalanine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/betaalanine\/","title":{"rendered":"Beta-Alanine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A non-protein amino acid that&#8217;s a precursor to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/carnosine\/\" target=\"_blank\">carnosine<\/a> (beta-alanyl-l-histidine).\u00a0 Carnosine is a dipeptide that&#8217;s highly concentrated in muscle tissue.\u00a0 It has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/15872311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">antioxidant effects<\/a>, and acts to buffer hydrogen ions produced during exercise, thus <a href=\"http:\/\/jap.physiology.org\/content\/103\/5\/1736.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delaying muscle fatigue<\/a>.\u00a0 Beta-alanine is marketed primarily as a bodybuilding, performance enhancing-supplement.\u00a0 See Paul&#8217;s review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/h+Blocker-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">H+Blocker<\/a>, for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A non-protein amino acid that&#8217;s a precursor to carnosine (beta-alanyl-l-histidine).\u00a0 Carnosine is a dipeptide that&#8217;s highly concentrated in muscle tissue.\u00a0 It has antioxidant effects, and acts to buffer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[162,163,198,211,230,535,675],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}