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Lactic Acid from exercise and foods

Too much exercise causes a lactic acid accumulation in the muscles. You can tell you're operating over your anaerobic threshold when you begin to tire, sweat, and feel fatigued. Your heart rate will be between 80% and 90% of its maximum. The best rosacea exercise to avoid turning red is to stay "aerobic" with oxygen. And, of course, to eat and drink properly.

One of the key reasons for endurance training is to enable the body to perform at a greater pace with a minimal amount of lactate. This can be done by long steady runs, which will develop the aerobic capacity by means of capillarisation or more small capillaries which improves the transportation of more oxygen to the muscles and by creating greater efficiency in the heart and lungs. If the aerobic (with oxygen) capacity is greater, it means there will be more oxygen available to the working muscles and this should delay or totally avoid the onset of lactic acid at a given work intensity.

If your lactate threshold (LT) is reached at low exercise intensity, it often means that the "oxidative energy systems" in your muscles are not working very well. If they were performing at a high level, they would use oxygen to break lactate down to carbon dioxide and water, preventing lactate from pouring into the blood. If your LT is low, it may mean that:

  1. you are not getting enough oxygen inside your muscle cells
  2. you do not have adequate concentrations of the enzymes necessary to oxidize pyruvate at high rates
  3. you do not have enough mitochondria in your muscle cells
  4. your muscles, heart, and other tissues are not very good at extracting lactate from the blood

Try to avoid or limit those foods with high amounts of lactic acids such as sour milk, butter milk, yogurt, and cottage cheese. Lactic acid may also be used as a fermentation booster in rye and sourdough breads. Lactic acid may also be found in various processed foods, usually either as a pH adjusting ingredient, or in canned foods as the FDA does not allow them to have a pH of less than 4.6 so that they will not spoil by growing bacteria. Fresh and frozen foods are not required to be so acidic.

Try to avoid beer and wines as they contain lactic acid. Consume the distilled alcohols such as gin, vodka, whiskey, etc. as they are not fermented but distilled and have a pH of 4.0 which can be mixed with water and flavored with a tablespoon of fruit juice or almost anything which avoids the lactic acid, keeps a higher pH, which reduces the redness of rosacea and acne pimples and rosacea papules. Likewise the higher pH of the alcohol drink with water would be approximately 6.0 instead of a 2.5 to 3.7 with beers and wines and would also reduce the hangover effect with less intoxication.

And with less lactic acid, one would be less likely to get a vaginal yeast infection which is no fun for the female or male as it is contagious. The lower pH results in more chances of a bacterial infection that results in antibiotics being provided by the doctor. The result is the vaginal 'good bacteria' is killed which sets the environment for a yeast infection. Sometimes yogurts can be good for the female after the use of antibiotics to allow bacterial growth in the vaginal canal after the antibiotics have killed the natural vaginal bacteria caused by the antibiotic being very acidic which resulting in a lowering of the pH (mechanism of action) which does not allow for the viability of natural 'good bacteria' to continue to live in the vaginal area thus a perfect place for yeast to grow.

You are better off limiting lactic acid within your body as the lactic acid builds and causes more weight gain and redness and a continuous cycle persists. So try to avoid or limit the foods with lactic acid such as cottage cheese, yogurt, wine, beer, etc. and limiting exercise. One would have to continue to exercise heavily to avoid gaining weight or reduce the calories very much. Just remember those football players and weight lifters and the weight gain or muscle loss.



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