Peter Attia· MD
the musculature of of part of a frog is put into an anerobic chamber this is a chamber that has no oxygen and it's not perused so there was no uh blood to carry hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the muscles presumably electrodes were placed somewhere on the musculature within the chamber and the electrodes provided the stimulation for muscle contraction and then the question became what is it that fueled the contraction well obviously it's the glycogen within the muscle but if glycogen or glucose is being used to fuel contraction without oxygen it somehow must be happening in the absence or exclusion of the mitochondria and so what they were measuring was the consumption of glycogen the production of lactate um and you're and presumably they could measure the pH in the solution and I'm assuming that the pH which is a measure of acidity was going down is that all correct