The Benefits of Lactate

It's important that we recognize that lactic acid is never actually formed in the body. Almost all textbooks even get that wrong. Production of lactate causes regeneration of NAD+, so that glycolysis can continue. It correlates with calcium production and metabolic waste, which we know has a stimula for protein synthesis. And then lactate is actually a preferred energy source of the brain as well interestingly enough. Maybe it has relevance to increasing BDNF neurotrophic factor.