Sentences with phrase «making ketones as fuel»
Scientists discovered, when their blood sugar was low, people's bodies started making ketones as fuel.
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Ketones are an potent source of fuel for your brain neurons, and when you're ketogenic, you have higher levels of brain derived neurotrophic factor and an enormous upregulation in brain neuron regeneration, focus and mental acuity (once you get over the «hump» of those first 10 - 14 days of making the fuel switch to using strictly fatty acids as your primary energy sources).
By that same token, a ketogenic diet can be understood as where your only fuels force you to burn fats in a way that makes ketones.
The Ketosis diet makes the body produce small fuel molecules known as Ketones.
Emerging research (http://www.healthy-eating-politics.com/alzheimers-disease.html, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995232/) suggests a mix of glucose and ketone bodies often approaching and even exceeding 50 % as ketones may be superior to a fuel substrate made up of mostly or entirely glucose.
A flaw prevents them from making the switch to using ketone bodies as fuel and thus, cancer cells can only stay alive on glucose.