
Watt The FTP?
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Lactate Is Not a by Product
When lactate levels are going up, it's almost a flag or a marker for other things in our physiology. Lactate is kind of the thing that scientists were able to measure and then had got blamed for what they then saw next, which was fatigue. An acid is a proton dona hydrochloric acid, and it can give you its hydrogenn e. In in the human body, it doesn't exist as lactic acid. It only exists as lactate. So again, if i was a sport science gramma, n asa o angon, you said elactic acid, you meant lactte.
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