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The Watts Doc #6: Lactate Myths and Truths

Empirical Cycling Podcast

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The Origins of Lactate in Exercise

Lactate is not an acid. And that's one of the first things that you learn in chem 101. So actually, lactate is therefore a base. It can absorb a little bit of protons, which means it's going to act as a base and buffer some of that acid. Low O2 evokes high lactate. Correlation does not equal causation. This paradigm here that we have with lactate and the low oxygen, the the phrase is low O2 evoked high lactate was wrong.

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