Sentences with phrase «ketones as an alternative fuel»

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Research indicates that giving a baby artificial milk at this time can actually worsen his blood sugar problem as it stops him using alternative brain fuels such as ketone bodies and lactate.

«Our research shows that as the heart fails, it loses its ability to burn fatty acids — the building blocks of fat — and instead starts using ketone bodies as an alternative fuel.

A case study documented by Dr. Mary Newport discusses ketone bodies, an alternative fuel for your brain, which can be produced when your body converts fat (as opposed to glucose) for energy.

This could be a beneficial property in any ketogenic diet as a decrease in glucose levels in the blood causes the body to break down alternative energy fuels such as ketones.

Only with the extremely recent (on the evolutionary timeline) advent of civilization have we been stuffing our faces with carbs and snuffing out our magnificent ability to generate ketones as a clean - burning alternative fuel source to dietary carbohydrates.

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.

Ketone bodies flow from the liver to extra-hepatic tissues (e.g., brain) for use as a fuel; this spares glucose metabolism via a mechanism similar to the sparing of glucose by oxidation of fatty acids as an alternative fuel.

Therefore, ketone bodies flow from the liver to extra-hepatic tissues (e.g., brain) for use as a fuel; this spares glucose metabolism via a mechanism similar to the sparing of glucose by oxidation of fatty acids as an alternative fuel.

Strict compliance with this diet causes the liver to produce ketones which are used by the brain as an alternative fuel source.

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.

But MCTs from coconut oil trigger the metabolism of ketones in the liver, which the brain of Alzheimer's patients easily accepts and uses as an alternative fuel.