Exploring the Southern Constellations. September 2008 : In the summer of 1865, noted American newspaperman and politician Horace Greeley penned, in an editorial, an admonishment to young civil servants in Washington DC. Greeley urged those who complained of low pay grades in the Capitol area to âGo west, young man!â.
When your muscles can't get enough oxygen during a short burst of exercise, they start to make use of a pathway called lactic acid fermentation, which generates a small three-carbon compound called lactic acid or lactate as a byproduct of glucose breakdown.
The end product of anaerobic metabolism is lactic acid. At physiologic pH ranges in the human body a hydrogen ion quick separates from lactic acid forming lactate. Lactate can then diffuse across cell membranes and into the blood stream. In the laboratory lactate is the compound that is measured in the blood.