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This study is not surprising in the least. Brain burns glucose (on a "traditional" diet). On this high-fat diet (assuming that carbohydrates are dropped, and p
by speek 17y ago
This study is not surprising in the least.
Brain burns glucose (on a "traditional" diet). On this high-fat diet (assuming that carbohydrates are dropped, and proteins are elevated), glucose is less available and different fats become more abundant, so the brain starts to use the fats as a fuel source (ketosis) instead of the glucose. This transition becomes easier and more efficient when there are very few carbohydrates in the diet.
Muscle fibers use glycogen (kinda the precursor to glucose) as an energy source, so when your body doesn't have any glucose to convert into glycogen... your body doesn't perform as well as it normally would.
Fun fact: A ketosis-based lifestyle is used by some body builders to lose body fat rapidly and by people with epilepsy to help control seizures.
- SwellJoe 17y agoIt's worth noting that your explanations are also conjecture based on limited research data. There actually aren't answers that are this clear about how our bodies use different types of foods, but human brains are wired up to place more trust in very precise explanations and answers. Your explanations are very precise, and thus, we tend to want to believe them. This explains the popularity of several fad diets based on the model you describe. These diets may or may not be healthy ways to eat for prolonged periods of time. We don't know, because there are several different theoretical models for how the body processes food, and all of them are based on various, but nearly always, limited (in time span and in sample size) experimental data.