Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Lactate generated during exercise is consumed by the brain Not only that It increases VEGF at the blood-brain barrier The benefit of that? Blood vessel growth & repair
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Lactate generated during exercise is consumed by the brain Not only that It increases VEGF at the blood-brain barrier The benefit of that? Blood vessel growth & repair
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But, you know, we've done a lot of work and we can see that lactate gets into the brain, and when you exercise, it goes up in the blood and it's available to fuel, and it's preferred.
So, a group from Copenhagen showed that when you exercise and your blood lactate rises, it substitutes for glucose in the brain. So, that's perfectly predictable, according to lactate shuttle theory.
it's been shown that lactate actually fuels the brain during exercise so that that lactate that's being translate um that's being transferred into circulation is being just soaked up by the brain and it's fueling the brain brain activity during exercise