Scientists and Medical Doctors getting something basic wrong about body
function is both interesting in itself, and important to the advancement
of our health.
The article below is a discussion of the long repeated belief that
"Lactic Acid is BAD"
The diet/health industry has many such common errors....
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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/SciTech/Living/muscle_fatigue_040823-1.html
Lactic Acid’s Bad Reputation
The misconception that lactic acid is a harmful waste product began with
the work of a Nobel laureate. In 1929, British physiologist Archibald
Hill analyzed muscle fibers of frogs and suggested the lactic acid that
pooled in the frog muscles after flexing causes fatigue. But researchers
now realize the experiment was flawed. Hill studied the frog muscles in
isolation, so he couldn't know that within the body, lactic acid is
taken up and consumed as a fuel.
"It was a classic mistake in biology," said George Brooks, a biologist
at the University of California at Berkeley and a pioneer in the
evolving understanding of muscle fatigue. "But because he was a Nobel
laureate and his students followed up on his work, the mistake was
propagated for years."
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