The Importance of Lactate in Exercise

Lactate is actually something useful that your body is like oh yeah we can do something with this. Your heart takes up a lot of lactate because it's full of mitochondria and so it can just like turn lactate to pyruvate and like voila you have more food for the Krebs cycle. The brain likes lactate and uh you know muscles that are working submaximally like lactate too like they'll take it up too. Kyle: One of my pet peeves about the misconceptions and lactate like like the Michael Phelps thing  is that he was tested to have like twice or either it was either twice the lactate clearance rate or produce half