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How does this fit in with the fact that high-fat low carbohydrate diet is used to help treat conditions such as epilepsy? I'm talking about the ketogenic diet h
by akustik 4y ago
How does this fit in with the fact that high-fat low carbohydrate diet is used to help treat conditions such as epilepsy? I'm talking about the ketogenic diet here. Seems they omit the high-carb part in "high-fat diets".
Do mice have similar metabolism to humans? I know they're used to study a lot of things before human trials, are our metabolisms similar? If you're low-fat high-carb you go into ketosis. Do mice do that as well?
- jjtheblunt 4y ago> If you're low-fat high-carb you go into ketosis. Is that backwards?
- akustik 4y agoYes, yes it is
- Filligree 4y agoGood question! Your brain needs sugar to run, so it's not surprising that a high-fat diet might stress it. Especially in mice. Our livers can produce ketone bodies as a replacement for sugar. Can mice? It's also, of course, possible that a ketogenic diet helps counter diabetes while still being less healthy than a better rounded diet would be for someone not diabetic.
- SubiculumCode 4y agothis study did not use a low carb diet. The feed was roughly 1/3 lard and 1/3 sugar by weight.