Sentences with phrase «as an alternative fuel source»

When consuming a low carbohydrate diet, the liver converts fats to ketones as an alternative fuel source for your brain heart and muscles.

It is sent straight towards the liver where it is processed, releasing energy, much like glucose, and creates ketones, which can nourish the body as an alternative fuel source.

Here are a couple of them who looked at the potential of algae as an alternative fuel source.

To sustain life during times of scarcity, the body is thought to have developed the ability to utilize fat as an alternative fuel source.

It drives home the basic notion that while natural gas emits half as much carbon as coal, it still produces twice as much as alternative fuel sources.

Coconut oil is particularly beneficial because it is metabolized in the liver and turned into ketones, which are then used as an alternative fuel source for the brain — rather than being stored as fat in the body.

Strict compliance with this diet causes the liver to produce ketones which are used by the brain as an alternative fuel source.

The LPG option was introduced as an alternative fuel source on European models with the 2.0 L and 2.2 L engines, built by company Necam Koltec.

Since that time, biodiesel remains popular as an alternative fuel source to curb rising gasoline prices.

although it wasn't until 2006 that ethanol blend E85 was classified by the US Department of Energy as an alternative fuel source.

Eating a very low - carbohydrate diet results in the production of ketones, which the body uses as an alternative fuel source; hence very low - carbohydrate diets (VLCKD) diets are called ketogenic.