"A sow that's got little ones, you know she's lactating, would drink 20, 25 litres a day of water.
Fifty-four percent of lactating women drank less than the recommended 2.7 L/day.
To date, however, the efficacy of adding lactate to these drinks has been sparsely assessed [5], [15], [16].
Alternatively, some other component or characteristic of HFCS may have affected availability of fructose in G. Prior to the present research, two other studies sought to determine the efficacy of lactate as a sports drink component [5], [16].
"He also advised that, if you can't find a beautiful lactating teen-ager, you should drink a young person's blood," Young said.
Including lactate as a component of sports drinks is logical based on the research showing its role in carbohydrate utilization during exercise (i.e., the Lactate Shuttle) and the present results show that exogenous lactate is a readily available substrate in that it is rapidly transported and oxidized.
The test and control drinks contained approximately 5 mg of iron as ferrous lactate and were labelled with Fe (B) and Fe (A), respectively, and consumed on 4 consecutive days in the order AABB.
During recovery, mice were injected with 0.5 ml Hartman's solution (130 mM NaCl, 4 mM KCl, 3 mM CaCl, 28 mM lactate; 0.5 ml) subcutaneously twice daily until they were able to eat and drink ad libitum.
Lactate is a dynamic substrate with great potential as an energy source in sports drinks.
The fruit drinks were supplemented with iron (2·1 ml/100 ml, in the form of ferrous lactate dehydrate; Vitablend) and ascorbic acid (50 ml/100 ml; Vitablend) and were produced in connection with Trial 1 and Trial 2, respectively.
