Salts of lactate can be used to alkalinize blood, potentially mitigating acidosis, providing fuel, and reducing swelling in traumatic brain injury.

“So, the endogenous acid, combined with the lactate we give is removed as lactic acid, and so it actually alkalinizes the blood. And, of course, that's one of the ideas that's really, I think, one of the reasons we formed this collaboration with UCLA. Because, when people have traumatic brain injury, there is a series of things which happen. There might be an acidosis, there might be a lack of oxygen, there's swelling which goes on. And by giving salts of lactate, we can mitigate the swelling, we can provide fuel, and we can manage the acidosis which occurs.”