Peter Attia· MD
the lactate um um that we see in the blood it reflects the mitochondrial oxidation so someone who has uh obviously when we're talking about you know high power output when you need a lot of glycolysis to produce energy uh you're going to produce lactate lactate is the mandatory obligatory byproduct not waste product but byproduct of glycolysis so the higher the glycolic is the higher the lactate now that lactate has two routes mainly one is going from the fast twitch muscle fibers to uh the the the slow T each muscle fibers is the lactate shuttle that George br discovered and is oxidizing the mitochondria of those um um low twitch muscle fibers if you have a very good lactic clearance capacity right you're going to be oxidizing it very very well for fuel therefore you're not going to incure in the Second Step which is exporting it to the blood