The article encouraged her to look beyond common lab animals in favor of Burmese pythons, creatures whose metabolic engines run in overdrive. (discovermagazine.com)
Dr. Attia consumed what is known as a ketogenic diet, which is one that shifts your body's metabolic engine from burning carbohydrates to burning fats. (articles.mercola.com)
But let's transform this into an evolutionary question: the fact that humans have a hybrid digestive system and hybrid metabolic engine does not necessarily mean that our fuel intake and usage needs to match the ratios present in the environment, particularly when, even in a lean person, fat storage dwarfs carbohydrate storage by an order of magnitude. (philmaffetone.com)