Sentences with phrase «glucose as its primary source»

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

On the flip side, I have gotten a lot of emails and letters from people who follow a low - carb diet or specifically paleo diet who are working out 5 - 6 days a week and dealing with horrible sugar cravings, hormone imbalance and other issues similar to what I experienced, and I can only attribute this to our body's preference for using the glucose from carbohydrates as its primary energy source.

Ketones are what your body produces when it converts fat (as opposed to glucose) into energy, and a primary source of ketone bodies are the medium chain triglycerides (MCT) found in coconut oil.

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.

When we eat food, the glucose from carbohydrates is converted into glycogen and used as the body's primary energy 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.

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;

Dextrose (also known as glucose) is a simple sugar (monosaccharide) that is the primary source of energy for the body.

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.

The body requires a continual intake of carbohydrates to feed the brain, which uses glucose (a form of sugar) as its primary energy source.

The ketogenic diet results in ketone bodies, instead of glucose, being used as the primary energy source in the brain.

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.

As you can see, since your primary source of energy is the glucose, your fats are not really used and as a consequence they are stored in the bodAs you can see, since your primary source of energy is the glucose, your fats are not really used and as a consequence they are stored in the bodas a consequence they are stored in the body.

There's a much more scientific explanation to that, but it basically means that instead of burning carbohydrates (mainly glucose, or sugars), your body switches to burning fat as a primary source for energy.

Although glucose is known to be the primary source of energy (your body naturally prefers glucose), it's nowhere near as efficient as ketone bodies, especially for the brain.

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?

Thus, by lowering the amount of glucose from food and the amount of glucose stored as glycogen, the body is able to start burning fat as its primary source of energy.

The body thrives on glucose as it's primary energy source?

Now as for the glucose being the primary energy source, this is beyond untrue.

Keep in mind the body and brain thrive on glucose as a primary energy source.

[7] Amino acids also contribute to cellular energy metabolism by providing a carbon source for entry into the citric acid cycle (tricarboxylic acid cycle), [8] especially when a primary source of energy, such as glucose, is scarce, or when cells undergo metabolic stress.

Fat fast is low in calories and for that reason it would be difficult for you because you'd feel worse if you are not keto - adapted (you may still be using glucose as primary energy source).

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.

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.