Hi Tom,
OK, I finally understand the original statements about "teaching a
system to burn lactates." I disagree with the statement that a body
must be "taught" to burn lactates as a fuel source, which I took
to imply that without being taught, it DOES NOT burn utilize lactates as
a fuel source (so you can imagine my confusion). However, I DO agree
with the statement that a system can be trained to burn lactates BETTER,
which is a different thing. I think somewhere in here I mentioned to
someone that conditioning does affect different things, among them
increasing the glycolytic and TCA cycle enzymes, tolerance to lower pH,
etc. Of course, there's a huge list of adaptations to conditioning, but
you can only list so many before dropping off into a light slumber or
until someone bludgeons you to death with a biochem book :->
As I thought, we're all agreeing on the same thing and just giving it
different labels. No offense to anyone, but I did perk up my ears at
someone saying a horse has to be TRAINED to burn lactates.
Thanks for the post, nice to hear from you.
Susan Evans
Equine Research Center
Cal Poly University