It'll either increase ketosis and liver gluconeogenesis or it'll reduce muscle metabolism (or alternately, increase fat - burning through leptin) and open up
glucose availability for itself.
Not exact matches
But if you max out your body's capacity
for glycogen storage — easy to do with today's rampant
availability of empty calories from sugar - heavy carb sources like soda, candy, and processed food — then the extra
glucose from the carbs is stored as fat instead.
These results are consistent with the hypothesis that ketones can be used in addition to
glucose as a substrate
for brain energy production even during reduced oxygen
availability.»
A drastic reduction in your carbohydrate intake reduces the
availability of
glucose and initiates a chemical change with your body using fat instead of
glucose for energy.
The immune defense against these infections is
glucose - dependent (as it relies on production of reactive oxygen species using
glucose) and thyroid hormone - dependent (as thyroid hormone drives not only
glucose availability, but also the
availability of iodine
for the myeloperoxidase pathway).
As a result, one could argue that things would run the opposite way than Adele proposes: reducing dietary
glucose, which generally does not reduce blood
glucose levels, will not affect cancer metabolism, but will limit
availability of
glucose to normal cells
for structural use.
It's benefit
for weight loss is that by reducing the
availability of
glucose from carbs, your metabolism shifts to fat burning mode.
Ketones have been shown to be an effective alternative fuel source
for the brain in times of low
glucose availability.
By reducing the
glucose availability to cancer cells and providing ketone bodies
for the energy to normal cells, the ketogenic diet could be used as a therapeutic option, especially in highly
glucose dependent cancers such as GBM's.
Any perturbation — exercise, infection, protein restriction limiting the
availability of substrates
for gluconeogenesis — might induce a
glucose deficiency.