Rhonda Patrick· PhD
when you are working harder, when you're working your muscles harder, um when you're when you're basically forcing your muscles to produce energy quicker, um what ends up happening is you're not using your mitochondria all the time. You're sometime you're going to be using your mitochondria, but you're sometimes going to be making energy without them as well. And so you're going to be making something called lactate as a quote unquote byproduct, which is not necessarily a byproduct. It's an active metabolite. And why is that important? Because lactate is not only a metabolite in some in some ways it actually acts as a hormone. It is a signaling molecule that's signaling to you know other proteins to other organs to to basically work harder and like respond to this hard work that is going on.