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Brain shifts from glucose to lactate fuel source d...
It's especially interesting in that when muscles work really hard they make lactic acid - which is then used by the brain when
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is working hard.
herdrick
on Oct 2, 2008
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No, I think the paper just says that the brain can get by with lactic acid, not that it works better with it.
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