HUMAN sweat is being used to provide crucial information about athletes’ performances. In a new study published in the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology researchers describe how they have developed groundbreaking technology in the form of a wearable sensor that detects lactate levels in perspiration.
Your sweat could provide activity feedback
Originally developed to help detect and predict fatigue and dehydration – both symptoms of raised lactate levels – in soldiers, the research team from the CFD Research Corporation in collaboration with the University of New Mexico believe the device could be used as a training aid to monitor lactate changes in the same way that athletes use heart rate monitors to see how their heart rate changes during exercise.