Marco Elling's articles
Exercise physiologist
Writes about effort, lactate, the day after hard work, and orgasm chemistry without turning any of it into a program.
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Lactate is a fuel, not the thing that burns
Working muscle ships lactate as a fuel other tissues can oxidize. The burn is not lactate acting as a toxin.
Energy metabolism -
What an orgasm changes in the next hour
After orgasm, prolactin often rises and oxytocin can rise with it. The next hour is a hormone shift, not a cure.
Hormones and signaling -
What the day-after ache is actually signaling
The soreness after a long effort is not the same signal as chronic inflammation, and muscle IL-6 is not a fire alarm.
Recovery and repair -
What dopamine does in the last minutes of hard effort
Dopamine in hard effort is a keep-going signal, not a pleasure spray that arrives when the work is over.
Neural chemistry