Rhonda Patrick· PhD
the using the zone to you know lactate threshold training to kind of measure mitochondrial function um... the the using the zone to you know lactate threshold training to kind of measure mitochondrial function um how so buying the lactate meter Nova diag NOA biom medical or something like that it's like a yellow purple one I got it per year like a but uh for people listening uh if they want to to get one but also knowing like how you know because there's when you when you go to like any sort of if you were to go talk to an exercise physiologist and you say lactate threshold like they kind of know and they're going to push you up they're lactate threshold is a different number right so this is like lower level this is below your lactate press yeah this is lower so um how do people know let's like let's say they have a pelaton at home okay and they get on their pelaton and they want to do a Zone 2 test okay do can you somehow use a you know percent max rate a heart rate sorry max heart rate uh like proxy to kind of know like yeah there are lots of different ways to estimate this and to be clear like I'm one of the very few people that is checking his lactate every you know every day that he's on his bike which is four days a week for me and by the way I'm also doing it while using all the other metrics that I'll explain in a moment mostly just in an ever neverend quest to just have as much data as possible to understand when is lactate the best predictor when was RP the best predictor when was heart rate the best predictor when was absolute wattage the best predictor like there there's a lot of stuff going on here so first thing I always say to people namely my patients when they say I don't want to get that lactate meter I don't want to be poking myself in the finger I'm like great don't you don't have to there are like other ways that you can pretty much approximate your Zone 2 output and the only reason I brought up the whole lactate testing is it is the gold standard and it is the most objective way to do this and therefore if I'm trying to really understand the impact of say metformin or EST Statin that's what I want to do