
The Watts Doc #6: Lactate Myths and Truths
Empirical Cycling Podcast
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The Effects of Pyruvate on Muscle Growth
Pyruvate is used to send out lactate and bring in lactate. In order for this process to happen because we're pushing really hard over threshold we need to have a lot of NAD. We would actually run out if we didn't turn it back, then the process of breaking down sugar would slow down very significantly which means we wouldn't be able to exercise that hard aerobically okay so evolutions solutionBecause evolution is if nothing else very very clever it takes pyruvate and it takes uh NADH and it takes another proton from the cellSo this is so this is actually reducing acidity at the same time it's freeing up an NAD to go help break
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