Dr Rhonda Patrick (Dealing With Depression)
Stay Free with Russell Brand
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Is Lactate Making Your Muscles Soar?
For a long time, it was thought when you work your muscles really hard, you're making what's called lactate or lactic acid. It turns out the lactate itself is not making your muscles soar. When we exercise, our muscle is soaking up something called kineurine which causes depression and accelerates brain aging. Our muscles are like little pharmaceutical factories. They're making compounds that are beneficial for cardiovascular health but also mental health as well. We don't need to be sedentary zombies, staring at screens, just pumping ourselves full of SSR (sodium retinol) And there's so much that can be done beneficially for mental health, for physical health,
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