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Citrulline Malate Fails to Improve German Volume Training Performance in Healthy Young Men and Women.

Journal of dietary supplements2020The record ↗

  1. Finding, very limited evidenceno difference foundSerum creatine kinase activity

No finding here moved its endpoint.

What did not

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  • No detected effect on serum creatine kinase activity

    very limited

    “Blood lactate and creatine kinase did not differ between CM and placebo (p > .05).”
    Study
    RCT
    Dose studied
    8 g citrulline malate (1.1:1 ratio), single dose; placebo 6 g citric acid
    Population
    Nineteen healthy men and women (8 female) who regularly engaged in resistance training, after a German Volume Training protocol of barbell curls

Study record

Design
crossover trial
Species
human
Population
Healthy young men and women regularly engaged in resistance training; citrulline malate (CM, 1.1:1 ratio, 8 g) against a placebo of citric acid
Participants
19
Comparator
placebo
Duration
not reported
Endpoints measured
5