Sentences with phrase «glucose as fuel»

In case you're not familiar with a keto or ketogenic diet, it simply means that instead of using glucose as fuel, your body burns fat instead.

At the same time, other tissues in the body decrease their use of glucose as fuel.

There is no doubt the lower your carbohydrate consumption, the sooner your body stops relying on glucose as fuel.

Likewise, higher and higher amounts of insulin to deliver glucose as fuel to your cells burn out your pancreas.

The brain can no longer use glucose as fuel, but the coconut oil allows the body to produce ketones as an alternate brain fuel.

This amino acid, another branched chain amino acid, will also assist with blood sugar regulation and can help prevent your body from using glucose as a fuel source when fats can be utilized instead.

The reason for the reduced glucose levels associated with bacterial meningitis was believed to be the need for glucose as fuel by infiltrating immune cells in response to infection.

Eating a high - fat diet — we're talking 70 percent dietary fat or higher — means you aren't getting sufficient glucose as fuel, and glycogen (your glucose backup tank in your liver) eventually becomes depleted.

Also, while ketones can replace glucose as a fuel, they can not glycosylate proteins, or generate ROS in the manner needed by immune cells.

When MCT oil is metabolized in the body, it behaves more like a glucose or carbohydrates than a fat, and your body prefers glucose as a fuel source.

L - carnitine helps the heart and skeletal muscles to efficiently use fats (especially long - chain fatty acids) and glucose as a fuel [2].

The main similarities in metabolism between LCDs and starvation are that there is no (or little) intake of exogenous carbohydrate and that there is a shift from the use of glucose as fuel toward the use of fatty acids and ketones as fuel.

(1) When workouts are of higher intensity or volume, more carbohydrates are likely to be necessary, while with lower intensity workout days, lower carb eating can support adaptation and the ability to use both ketones and glucose as fuel sources for exercises.

These are usually healthy fats that are consumed and help your body cope with the lack of glucose as fuel by initiating ketone body release which serve as the fuel replacement.

Ketosis is a normal and healthy metabolic condition in which the body burns its reserves of fat, rather than making use of glucose as fuel.

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.

I can't believe that there is still a large segment of the so - called health and fitness community that defend carbohydrate and glucose as a fuel source with such tenacity.

No, because any energy you need can come from stored body fats once you deplete your glucose as fuel, metabolism has no reason to slow down.

Keto adaption is the initial stage of a Ketogenic Diet; its primary purpose is to turn your bodies metabolism around from using glucose as fuel to using fats through fat oxidization and the production of ketone bodies.

Muscles use glucose as fuel, so any type of activity can bring blood sugar levels down.

This was great for the caveman, because it meant that when food was scarce, his body could switch from using glucose as fuel and instead burn his stored body fat.

The body will then use this glucose as fuel for typically eight to 12 hours after this process occurs.