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However, whether it can prevent exercise physiological metabolic acidosis, delay the occurrence of exercise fatigue, and improve the beneficial effects of exercise and its internal mechanism remain unclear.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We randomly divided 24 male SD rats into 3 groups: one group was a control without exercise (CC, <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 8), and the other two groups were supplemented with 616 mg\/kg\/day pyruvate (EP, <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 8) or distilled water of equal volume (EC, <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 8). These groups completed acute high-intensity interval exercise (HIIE) after 7 days of supplementation. The acid metabolism variables were measured immediately after exercise including blood pH (pH<jats:sub>e<\/jats:sub>), base excess (BE), HCO<jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub><jats:sup>\u2212<\/jats:sup>, blood lactic acid and skeletal muscle pH (pH<jats:sub>i<\/jats:sub>). The redox state was determined by measuring the oxidized coenzyme I\/reduced coenzyme I (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide [NAD<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup>]\/reduced NAD<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> [NADH]) ratio and lactate\/pyruvate (L\/P) ratio. In addition, the activities of lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA), hexokinase (HK), phosphofructokinase (PFK) and pyruvate kinase (PK) were determined by ELISA.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Pyruvate supplementation significantly reversed the decrease of pHe, BE, HCO<jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub><jats:sup>\u2212<\/jats:sup> and pH<jats:sub>i<\/jats:sub> values after HIIE (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001), while significantly increased the activities of LDHA (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.048), HK (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.006), and PFK (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.047). Compared with the CC, the NAD+\/NADH (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.008) ratio and the activities of LDHA (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.002), HK (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001), PFK (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001), and PK (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.006) were significantly improved in EP group.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study provides compelling evidence that oral pyruvate attenuates HIIE-induced intracellular and extracellular acidification, possibly due to increased activity of LDHA, which promotes the absorption of H<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> in the LDH reaction. The beneficial effects of improving the redox state and glycolysis rate were also shown. 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