When lactic acid is injected into normal healthy resting people, it can create tension, anxiety, fear and panic, smothering and choking sensations, difficulty in breathing, Drs. Pitts and McClure, New England Journal of Medicine, Dec. 21, 1967. These symptoms are experienced by many people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and many people with chronic illnesses of all kinds including Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. If you're tense, hurried, or overworked, you're going to set yourself up for mysterious pains, fatigue, and emotional disturbances for physical reasons. Shallow breathing makes the body produce lactic acid to get its energy.
Some consequences are muscle pains and anxiety.
One solution is extra calcium, which binds with lactic acid, neutralizing its effects by forming calcium lactate, according to Pitts, McClure, and Reich. Under stress, my PPS fatigue levels go up and with them come anxiety, stiffness, pain and fatigue. Lactic acid energy generates about 40 kilocalories of energy per ATP molecule. Lactic acid is one way of keeping all the cells, brain and muscle, going. However, under rich oxygen conditions, the body kicks into its most efficient gear of energy production, the oxidation, or oxygen pathway of protein, carbohydrate, or fatty acid metabolism.