Sentences with phrase «glucose as a fuel source»

First, the researchers inhibited the tumour cell mitochondria, by restricting the cancer cells only to glucose as a fuel source; then, they took away their glucose, effectively starving the cancer cells to death.

This deals with brain cancer but since virtually all cancers use glucose as their fuel source, a VLCKD should work in the same manner and other research papers have shown such.

But lactobacillus and other bacteria used to ferment dairy break down the lactose into glucose and galactose in order to use the glucose as a fuel source to multiply.

Not exact matches

Fiber is an important source of fuel for the gut biome, fiber is not be considered «sugar» as it does not get digested like glucose is in our bodies.

As a result the ketogenic diet has become a popular approach for essentially starving cancer cells of their primary fuel source, glucose.

This is all due to a ketogenic diet's ability to switch your body to using fat as its fuel source instead of glucose.

Protein can be broken down into glucose if the body is in need of it, but it is the least preferable source of fuel for energy as it difficult to convert (unlike carbohydrates).

Besides bringing glucose into all cells in the body, insulin also helps in the uptake of amino acids into muscle tissue, which in turn initiates protein synthesis, and prevents amino acids from being oxidized as a reserve fuel source.

Are you prepared to work through «keto flu» and other potential drawbacks as your body shifts from glucose to fat (ketones) as its dominant fuel source?

These Ketone bodies are produced when glucose is not available as fuel source.

Normally, your cells use glucose, or sugar, as their main source of fuel.

Ketogenic dietary therapies are designed to cause a metabolic shift within the body, with fat becoming the primary fuel rather than carbohydrate and ketone bodies replacing glucose as an energy source for the brain.

So, fewer carbs = less glucose in your system, which means your body will have to start burning fat as your fuel source.

The sad reality is that our ancestors were adapted to using fat as their primary fuel, and over 99 percent of us are now adapted to using sugar or glucose as our number one fuel source.

If someone was to start their exercise session with cardio, during the training session glucose will be utilized as the primary fuel source until the point that blood sugar is depleted.

Strength training, on the other hand, uses primarily a glucose energy system (blood sugar) and very little fat as its fuel source.

In a nutshell, ketosis is a metabolic state in which the body has shifted from using glucose as the primary fuel source into supplying its energy demands with ketone bodies.

Shifting from carbohydrates or glucose for energy to fat as the bodies primary fuel source is beneficial in the fact that;

From then on, ketones become more and more important as a source of fuel while fatty acids and glucose become less important.

This strategy is intended to ease your body into a state of ketosis, in which stored fat is burned as fuel in lieu of glucose, the body's normal source of calories.

The simple SAD fact that carbs / glucose are so readily available and cheap today doesn't mean that we should depend on them as a primary source of fuel or revere them so highly.

Blood sugar, also known as blood glucose, is the primary source of fuel for energy production, particularly for your muscles, brain, and other parts of the body.

If glucose levels drop too much, the liver synthesizes ketone bodies as a sort of back up fuel source for use by other organs (4).

Where the body burns fat as fuel rather than using glucose as its source of energy.

As you check out the graph above, think of plasma glucose as something you'd get from a gel or sports drink or bar (or from the breakdown of protein); plasma free fatty acids as something you'd get from breaking down your own fat tissue, or from a dietary source of fat; muscle triglycerides as stored fat in muscle (or perhaps from an external source like coconut oil, if that's your fuel of choice), and muscle glycogen as your body's storage carbohydratAs you check out the graph above, think of plasma glucose as something you'd get from a gel or sports drink or bar (or from the breakdown of protein); plasma free fatty acids as something you'd get from breaking down your own fat tissue, or from a dietary source of fat; muscle triglycerides as stored fat in muscle (or perhaps from an external source like coconut oil, if that's your fuel of choice), and muscle glycogen as your body's storage carbohydratas something you'd get from a gel or sports drink or bar (or from the breakdown of protein); plasma free fatty acids as something you'd get from breaking down your own fat tissue, or from a dietary source of fat; muscle triglycerides as stored fat in muscle (or perhaps from an external source like coconut oil, if that's your fuel of choice), and muscle glycogen as your body's storage carbohydratas something you'd get from breaking down your own fat tissue, or from a dietary source of fat; muscle triglycerides as stored fat in muscle (or perhaps from an external source like coconut oil, if that's your fuel of choice), and muscle glycogen as your body's storage carbohydratas stored fat in muscle (or perhaps from an external source like coconut oil, if that's your fuel of choice), and muscle glycogen as your body's storage carbohydratas your body's storage carbohydrate.

Yes, it can be burned as fuel, but really only as a secondary source, and even then, it must be converted to glucose to be utilized.

Developing aerobic endurance means that you're training your body to sustain some level of activity for a prolonged period of time, (typically 30 minutes if not much more), and you're utilizing fat as a fuel source rather than glucose (sugar) or some other energy source.

Ketosis is a metabolic state in which your body has shifted from burning glucose as its primary fuel source into using ketone bodies to do so.

Insulin is a hormone that transports glucose (your body's main source of fuel) from your bloodstream into your cells where it can be used as energy.

[I] see the human metabolism as a multi-fuel stove, equally capable of burning either glucose or fatty acids at the cellular level depending on the organ, the task and the diet, and equally capable of depending on either animal fats or starches from plants as our dietary fuel source...

When there isn't enough oxygen present in the muscles to form ATP, glucose is transformed to lactate, otherwise known as lactic acid, which is a short - term source of fuel.

Most cell types can use either fats or glucose (a simple sugar derived from carbohydrates) as a fuel source to satisfy their energy needs.

By having ketone bodies as an additional source of fuel, the dependence on glucose is reduced.

Is it normal to fail this test while on a keto or low carb diet during pregnancy or while not pregnant because the body is not used to burning glucose as a primary 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.

Ketogenic diets have gained popularity for a variety of health benefit claims, but scientists are still teasing out what happens during ketosis, when carbohydrate intake is so low that the body shifts from using glucose as the main fuel source to fat burning and producing ketones for energy.

Did you know that your body can use both glucose (sugar) as well as fat as its source of fuel?

And the people who sugar the worst are the people who have been relying of sugar glucose as their main source of fuel for many years.

First, when you switch from using primarily lipids as your fuel source instead of glucose, there is a time period of, shall we say, sluggishness.

In response, the body releases more cholesterol, allowing it to utilize fat as a source of fuel, instead of glucose.

Ketones, or «ketone bodies,» are compounds produced by the body as an alternate energy source when glucose (blood sugar) is unavailable to use for fuel (2).

It occurs when your body (and especially your brain) uses fat as its prime source of fuel, rather than glucose.

This horrible phenomenon is thought to be a result of the body switching from burning glucose as its primary fuel source to adapting to ketone body production.

Ketosis means that your body is producing ketones and your brain is using them as its source of fuel, instead of using glucose.

Chlorophyll, the pigment that makes plants green, acts as a blood cleanser, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and detoxifying pigment that heals cell walls, oxygenates the blood, absorbs carcinogens and provides a fuel source cleaner than glucose.

For most, our weight loss will start to increase significantly after 2 - 3 weeks as our bodies get used to fasting because our we are gradually changing our body's fuel source from burning sugar / glucose to burning fat.

They serve as the body's primary fuel source when converted to glucose, a simple sugar used by the body as a quick source of energy.

The human body stores energy from food for future use as saturated fat, which is a cleaner burning fuel source than glucose.

Insulin lowers blood glucose levels partly by suppressing the release of glucose from the liver, by increasing glycogen (a kind of starch) synthesis and storage, and by inhibiting glycogen breakdown and the formation of glucose from other sources such as glycerol (from fat), lactate (from the metabolism of fuels like glucose and fructose by the liver and muscles) and amino acids (from proteins) by the process known as gluconeogenesis.