Sentences with phrase «body as an alternative fuel source»

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

Medium - chain triglycerides have been described as fats that are rapidly absorbed and oxidized.87 - 89 The fact that they can be used by the body as efficiently as glucose87 makes them a great alternative fuel source.

Findings published on the National Institutes Of Health website, Metabolic Effects of the Very - Low - Carbohydrate Diets: Misunderstood «Villains» of Human Metabolism, (Manninen et al) ascertains that reducing carb intake triggers a harmless physiological state known as ketosis, where ketones flow from the liver and spare the need for glucose metabolism providing an alternative source of fuel for the body.

This is known as a caloric deficit, and it forces the body to burn some alternative fuel source for energy instead.

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.