The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
and as a lactate goes everywhere so it probably goes into both astrocytes and neurons as a fuel in the right circumstances and it probably can be excreted from both as a waste depending on exactly what activities are required in the brain at that time
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So, all the apparatus for neurons to take glucose and make lactate are intact always. So, it might be a population thing. It might be the fact that there's so many astrocytes. So, they're gonna take their glucose and they're gonna make the lactate. And the neurons are gonna run on lactate because the glucose has been basically swiped by astrocytes and is not really available to the neurons.