When George Brooks first began investigating lactate, or lactic acid, sports physiologists saw it as a muscle poison that lowered performance. His research over decades has reversed that picture, ...

In clinical practice, lactate is a well-established tool for establishing diagnosis and prognosis in critically ill patients. 1 It can be used to diagnose sepsis and can also help in monitoring ...

The immune system can work in two ways: the innate immune system reacts to any foreign invaders that are identified by immune cells that look for such pathogens; but the acquired or adaptive immune ...

For as long as I’ve been running – and I recently passed the four-decade mark – I’ve been practising certain key principles of our sport. Run long to develop endurance. Run fast to build speed. Take ...

Nerve cells cover their high energy demand with glucose and lactate, scientists confirm. They show for the first time in the intact mouse brain evidence for an exchange of lactate between different ...

For a long time, muscular fatigue during exercise was believed to be caused primarily by lactate as a by-product of glycolysis (glucose metabolism). In early studies, lactate was shown to increase in ...

One of the best measures of running fitness is lactate threshold (LT), which is the running speed or heart rate at which lactate — an intermediate product of aerobic metabolism in the muscles — begins ...

You work hard in training and get fatigued. You've accumulated lactic acid in your blood and that's why you're tired, right? Wrong, says Dario Fredrick, M.A. - it's a bit more complicated than that.

Earlier this month, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a sex discrimination case from an Iowa woman who wanted to pump milk at work. The Court’s reasoning? It’s not sexist to tell women ...