Originally posted by SportLegs
Can't say for sure, Ric. Research coordinator says it's been submitted to journal(s).
You're correct about the body of research on lactate supplementation being underwhelming at best. Had we been scientists instead of athletes, we would have written off lactate supplementation as a dead end. However, we're athletes, and we knew from personal experience that lactate supplementation an appropriate time BEFORE EXERCISE made a significant difference, one that 9 out of 10 average humans could feel. And the university randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials I've described to you confirms it.
The underwhelming lactate supplementation research so far studies supplementation at the beginning of exercise, during, or after. That's when it shows merely a buffering effect, which mainly affects Perceived Exertion, which improves comfort, but doesn't hugely affect performance.
Best,
Carl Holmes