Lactation is the process of producingmilkfrom your mammary glands to feed your young, and almost all mammals do it. The lactation process typically begins inpregnancyand continues until you stop expressing milk. Although it's most common to lactate during pregnancy and after giving birth, it’s ...
When you’re training for hypertrophy, lactate is being metabolized and used as an energy source. Towards the end of your set when you feel a burning sensation, you’re nearing fatigue—those are hydrogen ions working, Reed adds. “The water that gets pulled into the muscle cell, which cre...
Alternating altitude delivers an acute hypoxic stimulus in order to perform altitude training and trigger beneficial reactions while at rest. While this method is most often used in medical treatments, therapies, and breath training, it is also beneficial for mountaineers and athletes, as it will su...
Ammonium lactate is an anti-itchtopical medication formulated from 12% lactic acid and ammonium hydroxide. Ammonium lactate hydrates the outermost skin layer and promotes skin moisturizing for a prolonged time. Ammonium lactate also prevents keratinization of epidermal skin layer, which keeps skin smoothe...
What is the role of the pyruvate to lactate reaction in keeping glycolysis operating? Why would glycolysis need to keep running? What features do the reactions catalyzed by hexokinase and phosphofructokinase share in common? Describe the pathway of food through the body. What happens at each organ...
Computer simulated volume expansion of the plasma (A), extravascular space (B) and the plasma albumin concentration (C) in response to infusion of 30 mL/kg over 30 min followed by 15 mL/kg over 1 h of Ringer´s acetate/lactate. The percentages imply the degree of inflicted restriction ...
Borderline personality disorder is marked by mood swings, unstable relationships, and impulsivity in an individual. Symptoms A blurred sense of own identity, a sense of being separated from oneself, thinking that people and things around are distorted and not real, severe stres...
What is low-level viremia?Viremia:Viremia is a medical term that refers to the presence of virus particles in the blood. Many viruses will travel through the blood in detectible quantities, but some, usually viruses that remain in the body, will have a continuous presence in the blood as ...
Understanding the interactions between intestinal microbiota, chronic inflammation, cellular stress, and aging is essential to developing therapies aimed at reducing inflammation and slowing age-related diseases in PWH. In this review, we discuss critical knowledge gaps and highlight the therapeutic potentia...
Fluid normally exchanges freely between the plasma and interstitial space and is returned primarily via the lymphatic system. This balance can be disturbed by diseases and medications. In inflammatory disease states, such as sepsis, the return flow of fl