Sentences with phrase «primary fuel for the brain»

Blood sugar, the primary fuel for the brain and an important fuel for working muscles, drops when you are sleeping, when you are more active (walking, exercising, etc.) and when you skip meals.

Basically glucose, or sugar, is the primary fuel for the brain and the other organs of the body most of the time, unless you're starving or on a ketogenic diet.

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Your brain, the primary driving force of your energy levels, can use two things for fuel: fat or sugar.

Use of NADH and ribose supplements have been reported to boost ATP (adenosine - 5 ′ - triphosphate) levels, a primary source of fuel for the brain and the body.

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.

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).

Blood sugar also referred to as glucose is the primary fuel in the body for energy and brain function.

Blood sugar, also known as blood glucose, is the primary source of fuel for energy production, particularly for your muscles, brain, and other parts of the body.

Ketones are one of the brain's two primary fuel sources, and also a vital source of ATP energy for the body.