Until now,
monitoring lactate levels has been a tedious, intrusive procedure that involves collecting blood at different times during exercise for analysis.
Professional athletes
monitor lactate levels to evaluate their training programs, and doctors look out for abnormally high lactate levels in patients as a sign of heart or lung disease.
Not exact matches
This generates a current, which is
monitored by a small device attached to the tattoo to give real - time information on
lactate levels.
Researchers are at work creating devices that
monitor glucose
levels in patients with diabetes, devices that
monitor the air quality to help patients with asthma, and devices that measure the
levels of substances, such as
lactate, in the body.
Closely
monitoring several markers of cell damage (including creatine kinase,
lactate dehydrogenase, prostaglandin - E and tumor necrosis factor - alpha) in their sample of 18 male athletes (who used 20 grams of creatine monohydrate per day for five days, mixed with 60 grams of maltodextrine), the researchers found
levels of these markers were reduced after the race, compared to 16 control subjects who took only the maltodextrine.
The brain subconsciously
monitors and manages all the factors important for optimal muscle function, from oxygen and
lactate to nutrient
levels and ATP, and more.