{"id":406,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:41:32","slug":"about-lactic-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"About Lactic Acid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Lactic acid does not exist as an <a href=\"?p=617\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">acid<\/span><\/a> in the body. When the \u201clactic acid\u201d concentration is measured in the <a href=\"?p=771\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">blood<\/span><\/a>, another form, called \u201clactate\u201d, is determined. Lactate and lactic acid have different physiological effects.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Stiffness after a strenuous event comes mostly from damage to the muscle, not an accumulation of lactic acid or lactic acid crystals in the muscle.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Lactate does not acidify the blood. Lactate is an important fuel, used by the <a href=\"?p=267\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">muscles<\/span><\/a> during prolonged exercise. Lactate released from the muscle is converted to glucose in the liver. Then used as a source of energy.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Thus, it actually helps delay a possible lowering of blood glucose concentration, a condition called hypoglycemia, which may cause a runner to feel weak and fatigued.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 103px; height: 102px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/lactic-acid-3D.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 102px; height: 100px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/lactate.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Lactic Acid\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lactate-ion <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=408\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>read more &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lactic acid does not exist as an acid in the body. When the \u201clactic acid\u201d concentration is measured in the blood, another form, called \u201clactate\u201d, is determined. Lactate and lactic acid have different physiological effects. Stiffness after a strenuous event comes mostly from damage to the muscle, not an accumulation of lactic acid or lactic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/6052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}