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  1. #1
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    A possible Aha! moment?

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    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?

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    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 (probably Zen will chime in!) but Wikipedia (lactic acid) (lactic acid fermentation) is probably accurate enough...
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    Both are derived from the Latin word for milk.

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

    Wait. I learned some Latin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OakLeaf View Post
    (probably Zen will chime in!)
    Who do you think wrote that Wiki entry
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    I want a speech and/or language test with an outcome that looks like this:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bl...centration.png

    !

 

 

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