Sentences with phrase «ketones for energy rather»

Ketosis is the physiological state that is achieved when your body breaks down ketones for energy rather than the glucose from carbohydrates.

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After two days, all patients had detectible levels of ketones, showing that they were metabolizing fat — rather than carbohydrates or proteins — for cellular energy.

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.

A low carb, high fat diet puts patients into nutritional ketosis, a metabolic state of burning fat and using ketones rather than glucose for energy.

This is because your brain is using more ketones rather than glucose for energy.

Muscles and other tissues in your body use ketones rather than glucose for energy metabolism when you are not consuming many carbs.

A ketogenic diet restricts carbohydrate intake to between 20 and 50 grams per day, causing the body to rely on ketones for energy production rather than glucose.

The premise behind this is that it mimics the metabolic state of starvation, at which point rather than using carbohydrates (ie.glucose) for energy, our body produces ketones from fat as an alternate source of energy production.

Also, to mention the Atkins diet, in the book I read, the diet begins with a two week very low carb diet [20 grams of carbo perday] in order to transition the body into a state of nutritional ketosis, using ketones not glucose / insulin for energy generation; however, it is not intended to be a permanent such state but rather for the dieter to gradually add in carbs; however, is one added in only up to the limit, which varies from person to person, of carbs to just below the lvel that would transition out of ketosis, then Atkins would work with that in mind and requiring monitoring for blood or urine ketone levels and must needs be high fat,, moderate protein, and low carbs