A possible Aha! moment?

[Tuckervill]

I was reading something about lactation in another venue, and then I ran across a thread here about lactate threshold. I started thinking about breastfeeding instead. Why are these two terms so similar? There must be something about the two biologic processes that make them related? No?

Anybody? Biologists?

Karen

[OakLeaf]

When chemists named lactic acid, it was because there's a lot of it in fermented milk products.

I don't remember much about the fermentation process in the body, from exercise physiology :rolleyes: (probably Zen will chime in!) but Wikipedia (lactic acid) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactic_acid) (lactic acid fermentation) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactic_acid_fermentation) is probably accurate enough...

[Chile Pepper]

Both are derived from the Latin word for milk.

[Tuckervill]

What a disappointment. lol. Thought I was going to learn something.

Wait. I learned some Latin.

Karen

[Zen]

(probably Zen will chime in!)

Who do you think wrote that Wiki entry ;)

[malkin]

I want a speech and/or language test with an outcome that looks like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blood_values_sorted_by_mass_and_molar_concentration.png

!