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Episode 186: The New Laws of Lactate Dynamics and Its Implications for Training

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Lactate Is Not the End Product, Right?

The way that we thought going from. glycogen to what sylstocolid, like aerobic utilization or energy production, we thought it went straight through this pyruvate thing. And then lactate was this kind of side product, by product, whatever you want to call it ends. But that's not the case. So that changes some things. What does it change? A, it tells us again that lactate is more important as a fuel source and as a shuttling mechanism that can be taken into, we'll call it essentially the cell and utilized aerobically. The shuttling rate is happening all the time, not just during cardiovascular or endurance activity.

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