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Originally Posted by Julie Donnelly  The ball will start to roll down your back, right next to the spine. As it does it will force toxins (lactic acid) from the muscle and draw blood into the muscle which will nourish the fibers.
As the lactic acid is released (again, too much to explain for this blog) the muscle relaxes and the strain is taken off the bone and disk.
Julie Donnelly |
Hey Julie, I don't know if you've read or not, but earlier this year some new info was released that lactic acid is not a "toxin" as originally thought. This is based on the clinical work of George A. Brooks (who I
think is UCLA or Berkeley, but I
know is at least in California somewhere).
His stuff is published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, but I can't seem to pull it up right now.
But I did the get NY Times article that went with it, of all the silly things
:
Lactic Acid is not muscles' foe, it's fuel.