Re: RC: RC: Pattys Post

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/26/99 6:51:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
guest@endurance.net writes:

<<  What do you think of its use post ride to help flush lactic acid? >>

Lactic acid does not build up unless the horse gets into anaerobic 
metabolism.  In aerobic work, what little is produced can actually be 
utilized as a source of more energy through the Krebs cycle.  The assumption 
that lactic acid was a factor was one of the things that got us into trouble 
in the early days in the sport--endurance horses are actually in both 
metabolic and respiratory alkalosis to varying degrees, and many early riders 
fed sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) to combat a lactic acidosis that wasn't 
there and made their horses even more alkalotic.

Heidi


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