At low intensities, you're burning mostly fat and
ketones for fuel so that your body could spare its muscle glycogen for higher intensities.
Not exact matches
Dr. Justin Marchegiani:
So regarding with diet piece — so ketosis, there's like nutritional ketosis where you're cutting your carbs down significantly where you're starting to rely on ketones, these fatty acid esters for fue
So regarding with diet piece —
so ketosis, there's like nutritional ketosis where you're cutting your carbs down significantly where you're starting to rely on ketones, these fatty acid esters for fue
so ketosis, there's like nutritional ketosis where you're cutting your carbs down significantly where you're starting to rely on
ketones, these fatty acid esters
for fuel.
The
ketone bodies are great stimulators of nerve growth factor, and
so they are fabulous, fabulous
fuel for the brain.
You're obviously you're burning — you're putting less sugar into your body
so you're using more
ketones for fuel.
When becoming keto adapted we deplete our glycogen
so that our metabolism switches over to fat oxidization and producing
ketone bodies
for fuel.
So I learned how to rely on fat instead and my brain can rely on
ketones (that are produced from fat by the liver)
for a nearly unlimited supply of
fuel.
Ketogenic diets have gained popularity
for a variety of health benefit claims, but scientists are still teasing out what happens during ketosis, when carbohydrate intake is
so low that the body shifts from using glucose as the main
fuel source to fat burning and producing
ketones for energy.
So the objective is to lower carbohydrate intake to a point where there is not enough carbs to create glucose and
ketones becomes the natural
fuel for the body.