How does lactic acid affect your body/muscles?
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when we do a lot of exercise,our body demands more energy.but the oxygen supply is not sufficient and hence in lack of oxygen,anaerobic respiration occurs in our muscles,which leads to the formation of lactic acid.this lactic acid causes "muscle fatigue",and our muscles starts paining after a vigorous exercise.
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It helps the muscles retain water, which puts them in a greater muscle building state. Higher endurance and strength can also follow this.Creatine is not a steroid, hormone, vitamin, or a mineral. Creatine is a combination of three non-essential amino-acids, which are arginine, glycine, and methionine. The chemical name for creatine is methyl guanidine-acetic acid\n\nAn understanding of ATP is crucial to a full understanding of how creatine works. ATP is known as the energy compound in the body. When your muscles use ATP for energy, it breaks the ATP down into ADP and inorganic phosphate. Your muscles have only enough ATP to last about 10-15 seconds at maximum exertion. This is where creatine comes into play. Creatine helps muscles replenish ATP, causing you to train longer, more frequently, and at a higher intensity. Creatine has another effect on the body's muscles. Creatine helps draw water into the muscles, keeping them super-saturated with water, or volumizing the muscle. When muscles are super-hydrated like they are when one uses creatine, the muscles not only stay in an anti-catabolic (muscle building) state, but they help someone train longer and harder, leading to an increase in lean muscle mass\n\ni hope this helps, i wouldnt recommend anyone taking it because it's effect are temporary and will go away quite quickly if you dont maintain regular dosage daily
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Prolonged diarrhea  from laxative abuse can lead to dehydration and depletion in important minerals, particularly if it co-exists, as often it does, with other weight control behaviours such as dieting or bulimia. It will tend to weaken the by muscles and undermine your ability to function at work or lead an active social life. Dehydration predisposes to low blood pressure (hypotension) and collapse. Long-term over-use of laxatives can damage muscle within the bowel wall and eventually predispose to chronic constipation. Laxatives only alter weight by causing fluid-depletion within the body. Paradoxically, they don't cause sustained weight loss because calories from food are absorbed in a part of the intestine that is not significantly affected by laxatives.
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Forget about potasium and lactic acid ... lactic acid has nothing to do with DMOS (delayed onset muscle soreness).  \n\nIf you want to get rid of the soreness, try taking alternating hot and cold showers.  Take a cold shower for one minute (as cold as you can stand) and then switch to a hot shower for 3 minutes.  Repeat three times.  This will help flush out the cellular waste products that cause DMOS.  Good luck.
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When you exercise, sugar is broken down into different chemicals, to produce energy for muscles. As long as you get all the oxygen you need, the final products are carbon dioxide and water, but if you exercise so vigorously that you can't get the oxygen that you need, the reactions stop, causing a chemical called lactic acid to accumulate in your muscles and spill into you bloodstream. \n\nLactic acid causes muscles to hurt and makes you feel tired. You breathe hard and fast and slow down to catch up with your oxygen debt, which converts lactic acid into carbon dioxide and water that are blown off as you breathe. Blood levels of lactic acid lower and your muscles stop hurting. A pace that you can hold breathing deeper and faster, but not gasping for breath is called the lactic acid threshhold and is the training level for most competitive athletes.\n\nDuring intense exercise, such as sprinting type activities, when the rate of demand for energy is high, lactate is produced faster than the ability of the tissues to remove it and lactate concentration begins to rise. This is a beneficial process since the regeneration of NAD+ ensures that energy production is maintained and exercise can continue. Contrary to popular belief, this increased concentration of lactate does not directly cause acidosis, nor is it responsible for muscle pain or "burning". This is because lactate itself is not capable of releasing a proton, and secondly, the acidic form of lactate (lactic acid) cannot be formed under normal circumstances in human tissues. Analysis of the glycolytic pathway in humans indicates that there are not enough hydrogen ions present in the glycolytic intermediates to produce lactic or any other acid.\n\nThe acidosis that is associated with increases in lactate concentration during heavy exercise arises from a completely separate reaction. When ATP is hydrolysed (split) for energy, a hydrogen ion is released. It is these hydrogen ions that are primarily responsible for the decrease in pH. During intense exercise, oxidative metabolism (aerobic) cannot produce ATP quick enough to supply the demands of the muscle. As a result, glycolysis (i.e. anaerobic metabolism) becomes the dominant energy producing pathway as it can form ATP at high rates. Due to the large amounts of ATP being produced and hydrolysed in a short period of time, the buffering systems of the tissues are overcome, causing pH to fall and creating a state of acidosis. This may be one factor, among many, that contributes to the acute muscular discomfort experienced shortly after intense exercise.\n\nAlthough it is not firmly established, it is possible that lactate may contribute to an acidotic effect via the strong ion difference, however this has not been well investigated in exercise physiology research and so its contribution is still uncertain.
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you can also prevent it, or some of it...if you take a lactic acid buffer (cytomax), it keeps your body from over producing lactic acid, or you can take the precurser for lactic acid (optygen), this puts small amounts of lactic acid in your muscles before your workout, and because its present already, your body will actually create less during workout giving you a lower L Acid in the end.\n\nbut if you dont suppliment, massage from the ends of the limbs to the core of your body and cooling down keeps your blood circulating w/o L A production thus re oxygenating your muscles and flushing out L A. and massage!!!
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What it does?\n\nAlpha-lipoic acid affects nearly every cell in the body. It assists all of the B vitamins -- including thiamin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, and niacin -- in converting carbohydrates, protein, and fats found in foods into energy the body can store and later use. Alpha-lipoic acid is a cell-protecting antioxidant that may help the body recycle other antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, boosting their potency. Thanks to its unique chemical properties, alpha-lipoic acid is easily absorbed by most tissues in the body, including the brain, nerves, and liver, making it valuable for treating a wide range of ailments. \n\nForms: Tablet, and Capsule\nAlpha-lipoic acid can be purchased as an individual supplement or part of a general antioxidant booster, along with vitamins C, E, and other antioxidants. Look for it on the ingredients list; it may also be called thioctic acid. \n\nCommon Uses-\nHelps treat numbness, tingling, and other symptoms of nerve damage in people with diabetes or other conditions. \nProtects the liver in hepatitis, alcohol abuse, or exposure to poisons or toxic chemicals. \nAids in preventing cataracts. \nMay help preserve memory in Alzheimer's disease. \nServes as a high-potency antioxidant and possible immune booster, combating a wide range of disorders, including psoriasis, fibromyalgia, and AIDS. \n\nDosage: To treat specific disorders: \nAlpha-lipoic acid is usually taken in doses of 100 to 200 mg three times a day. \nFor general antioxidant support: Lower doses of 50 to 150 mg a day may be used.\n\nGuidelines for use: Alpha-lipoic acid can be taken with or without food. No major adverse effects have been reported.\n\nPossible side effects:\nAlpha-lipoic acid appears to be very safe, and there have been no reports of serious side effects in people taking it. Occasionally, the supplement may produce mild gastrointestinal upset, and in rare cases, allergic skin rashes have occurred. If side effects appear, lower the dose or discontinue using the supplement\n\nWarnings:\n\nFor people with diabetes, the use of alpha-lipoic acid may require a change in insulin or other medications. \nReminder: If you have a medical condition, talk to your doctor before taking supplements.
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Usually, the energy in your muscles is supplied by oxygen, using aerobic respiration. However, during periods of heavy activity, oxygen demand exceeds onygen supply, causing your muscles to switch over to anaerobic respiration, which, besides producing 1/18th the energy, makes lactic acid. THis acid triggers a neural switch to encourage you to slow down and let your muscles process the acid and switch back over to aerobic.
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When a person dies, a stiffening of the body occurs called rigor mortis.  \nThis is due to a build up of lactic acid in the body due to a lack of \nmetabolism and the muscles stiffen up.  You may have experieced a cramp or \n"Charlie horse" in a muscle after running or working out.  Lactic acid has \nbuilt up in your muscle and has caused a stiffening of the muscle.\n\nRigor mortis is temporary; eventually the muscles become flaccid again as \ndecomposition sets in.
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Sore muscles are caused by lactic acid, which builds up in your muscles naturally, and causes the burn you often feel when lifting weights or are exhausted from a soccer match. When you warm up your muscles, the increased blood flow can remove some of the lactic acid, and make your muscles feel better. To further get rid of lactic acid, try stretching, eating bananas, or drinking tonic water (gin optional). \n(the quinine in tonic water breaks down lactic acid)
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Creatine is a nitrogenous organic acid that naturally occurs in vertebrates and helps to supply energy to muscle cells. Creatine was identified in 1832 when Michel Eugène Chevreul discovered it as a component of skeletal muscle which he later named creatine after the Greek word for flesh, Kreas.\n\nCreatine supplementation has been, and continues to be, investigated as a possible therapeutic approach for the treatment of muscular, neurological and neuromuscular diseases (arthritis, congestive heart failure, disuse atrophy, gyrate atrophy, McArdle's disease, Huntington's disease, miscellaneous neuromuscular diseases, mitochondrial diseases, muscular dystrophy, neuroprotection, etc.).\n\nDoes creatine cause cancer?\nRecently, there has been a lot of talk about creatine causing cancer. This concern initially arose from the fact that certain carcinogenic agents (AIAs) are produced in meats when exposed to high temperatures. The connection between creatine and cancer stems from the fact that meats with higher creatine content produce more of these cancer causing agents WHEN COOKED. The French agency for food safety, AFSSA (Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments), thus alleged that creatine supplementation, since it increases our muscle creatine content, increases our chances of developing cancer. It remains to be clearly demonstrated, however, that these same cancer causing agents are produced within the human body. In other words, in a person that isn't cooked! Moreover, some experiments performed on isolated tumor cell lines maintained in tissue culture have demonstrated just the opposite. That is, creatine had either no effect, or even suppressed tumor cell growth.\n\nCreatine known potential side effects may include cramps, kidney stones, gas and bloating. \n\nFor full info, click the links below.\n\nThat's My Best Answer!
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Certain chemicals are potentially toxic to your brain and other body cells(e.g. Urea).If you allow them to build up and dont get them out of your blood they will slowly poison you and you will die. \n\nOther Chemicals block the actions of good chemicals that you need to stay alive (e.g. Carbon Monoxide takes the place of oxygen you suffocate to death, lactic acid inhibits muscular actvity). If you dont maintain a balance you cant function. Capisce?
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Glyco- for glucose and -lysis for destruccion\n\nBecause it's the way glucose is oxidized to obtain ATP (a bioenergetic molecule) by the cell...and the cell is universal unit of the living beings, so glycolysis is a universal pathway in bacteria, plants and animals.\nBy this pathway glucose is transformed into pyruvate and then lactose, in this transformation we obtain the ATP wich is used as energy to move our body and enable the cellular metabolism...\nExamples: \n- fermentation is a glycolysis, when you ferment fruits, sugar, yeast the glucose in it becomes alcohol...\n- when you go to the gym and you do a lo of workout you use glucose stocks in your body and from that you create ATP lots of energy to weightlifting or running...all that glucose turns into lactose and then that will be a heavy burden in the day afer the workout...it's the lactic acid low pH that disturbs now and make us sooo weak the few days after workout ...lol
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I wouldn't worry about a little soreness.  Go ahead and work out.  Sometimes the work out will flush the lactic acid from your muscles and you'll actually recover faster.
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1.  C - Lactic Acid and ATP\n\n2.  B - Oxygen\n\n3.  Because when a human muscle needs energy, it uses stored energy (ATP) first. After that, there is an oxygen debt in the muscles so the muscles have to figure out a way to get energy without oxygen.  That would be lactic acid fermentation.  Lactic acid fermentation does produce energy for the muscle to use, but also produces a byproduct called lactic acid that causes the burning sensation we feel in our muscles.  After exercising, heavy breathing is required to "repay" the oxygen debt that the muscle has created.\n\n4.  The acidity of the salt prevents bacteria from breaking down the meat.\n\n5. The mitochodria provide the energy needed for the centrioles to pull the sister chromatids apart during mitosis and meiosis.  They are evenly spread after the seperation because both new cells would need the mitochodria for energy as well.
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well they can't keep there fitness up-the body uses the same enzymes to break down and excrete alcohol as it does to break down lactic acid. when there is alcohol and lactic acid in the body the alcohol is the priority for the enzyme so the lactic acid will remain in the system not to mention it is a diaretic(increases fluid loss so rehydration will take longer affecting muscle recovery greatly). All that said if they only have a glass or two it shouldn't have enough of an effect to hinder their recover but it definitely doesn't help.
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Streching. Get a Yoga book from the local library. Streching increases the rate of metabolism in one's body, which causes faster muscle build up. If you work out regularly, you will no longer feel soreness in your muscles.