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Depends how much you cut back. I think your body/brain needs 120g of glucose a day. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bo
by tkyjonathan 9y ago
Depends how much you cut back. I think your body/brain needs 120g of glucose a day.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22436/
- maxxxxx 9y agoThere is almost zero risk not getting enough sugar these days. That's not something to worry about.
- eisrep 9y agoThe body can produce the amount of glucose it needs through converting proteins using Gluconeogenesis. Dietary intake of carbohydrates/glucose is not necessary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis
- tkyjonathan 9y agoI don't think you went over that medical summary I provided: Fatty acids do not serve as fuel for the brain, because they are bound to albumin in plasma and so do not traverse the blood-brain barrier. In starvation, ketone bodies generated by the liver partly replace glucose as fuel for the brain.