Answer to Question #251034 in Human Anatomy and Physiology for cc3

Question

you briefly enter in an expert cave and shortly after emerging several hours later you begin to experience difficulty forcing your muscle to reduce the movements required for breathing and it’s hard to make your legs move so that you can walk what happened?

Answer 1

When your body is an area with low oxygen, or your systems can’t deliver oxygen to your muscles quickly enough, your muscles convert the available glucose into lactic acid instead. This is when your weaken and begin to feel fatigued thus cannot move your muscles.