Peter Attia· MD
It's not actually the lactate that's causing the physical discomfort that you feel when you're vomiting on the floor after a maximal lactate test. It's the hydrogen.
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It's not actually the lactate that's causing the physical discomfort that you feel when you're vomiting on the floor after a maximal lactate test. It's the hydrogen.
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it's that hydrogen ion that's causing all the trouble it's not the lactate we can consume we can tolerate endless amounts of lactate just can't tolerate and lactate is crucial in metabolism yeah yeah we just can't tolerate the hydrogen that comes with it and it's that hydrogen that actually paralyzes the actin meas and filaments prevents them from disengaging and that's what leads to that seizing up that you feel the rigidity you feel when you're at and when you exceed your lactate threshold