During exercise, the human brain shifts into high gear on 'alternative energy'
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 09:09
in Health & Medicine
Alternative energy is all the rage in major media headlines, but for the human brain, this is old news. According to a study by researchers from Denmark and The Netherlands published in the October 2008 print issue of The FASEB Journal, the brain, just like muscles, works harder during strenuous exercise and is fuelled by lactate, rather than glucose...
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