Poor, Misunderstood Lactate

It’s not the enemy we’ve made it out to be. But that doesn’t mean we want more of it either.

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I recently joined John Gay on The Shakeout Podcast to talk about performance supplements. Before long, we found ourselves revisiting a familiar villain known as lactate.

For decades, lactate was blamed for burning legs and muscle fatigue. Now the pendulum has swung in the other direction (as things tend to do in this space). Lactate is a fuel, …