During intense or prolonged exercise, muscles can feel like they’re burning the longer and harder someone pushes. This occurs because the muscles produce energy as quickly as possible by dipping into ...

If you're an endurance athlete, your lactate threshold can be an incredibly useful training tool – but what exactly is it, and how can you measure and use it? Lactate is created when muscle tissue ...

If you’ve heard the terms lactic acid or lactate threshold tossed around in cycling jargon, you may have been confused. Often ...

In terms of differences, if you think about VO2 max as the size of your engine, lactate threshold is the size of the gears in ...

Lactate is a byproduct of exercise and metabolism, fueling our brain when oxygen is limited. More recently, scientists have become aware of the many roles it plays in developing our nervous system.

Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is an enzyme required during the process of turning sugar into energy for your cells. LDH is present in many kinds of organs and tissues throughout the body, including the ...

The immune system can work in two ways: the innate immune system reacts to any foreign invaders that are identified by immune cells that look for such pathogens; but the acquired or adaptive immune ...

A new study shows that the brain benefits of exercise may be partly replicated with an IV infusion of lactate, the by-product ...

Both metrics are important – but one of them is better at determining your running performance over long distances ...

Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, which occurs when the brain's supply of oxygen and blood is blocked for some period of time, is the most common cause of death or disabilities in newborn babies. When ...

In critically ill patients with hypertension and atrial fibrillation (AF), the lactate-to-albumin ratio was found to be an ...