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You can get the same effect with much less lifestyle disruption just by exercising. Specifically low intensity cardio trains your body to metabolize fat efficie
by jniedrauer 5y ago
You can get the same effect with much less lifestyle disruption just by exercising. Specifically low intensity cardio trains your body to metabolize fat efficiently.
- astrange 5y agoWhat does metabolizing fat have to do with carbs giving you brain fog?
- jniedrauer 5y agoThe brain fog is caused by rapid fluctuations of blood sugar. Low intensity aerobic exercise has a number of positive effects that all play off each other: You metabolize fat more readily as an energy source, which makes your body less reliant on carbs. This alleviates the exhaustion you might normally feel as your blood sugar crashes. And carbs (and especially refined sugars) are routed directly to muscles, blunting the insulin response and increasing insulin sensitivity.
- dlkmp 5y agoIt doesn't. That's why "Hungerast", i.e. sudden loose of energy due to all carbohydrates being used up is a thing in all endurance focused sports.
- jniedrauer 5y agoIt's actually not a thing in "all" endurance sports. Once you push into the realm of ultra endurance, athlete become so efficient at fat metabolism that they never "hit the wall" so to speak.