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.
If you haven't figured out the issue already, eliminate those and if it helps, be prepared to avoid anything with more
fructose than glucose when he gets older.
This is from where the diet gets its name, and ketosis is a state in which the body makes use of fat rather
than glucose for fuel.
That different energy source is ketones and is the only other known fuel source for the brain
other than glucose.
This shift converts fat into ketones; ketones burn more
efficiently than glucose which results in more consistent energy levels and fat burn.
This shift converts fat into ketones; ketones burn more efficiently
than glucose which results in more consistent energy levels and fat burn.
The glycemic responses to the bean meals were not significantly different, and, not unexpectedly, all were significantly
lower than the glucose drink.
They provide more energy for the
brain than glucose, which can have benefits for memory, mood, concentration and cognitive performance.
Six times
sweeter than glucose, it wreaks havoc with metabolism and has been linked to rising rates of obesity and diabetes.
In a follow - up study, Pickens et al. showed that despite inducing the same overall level of hepatic fat accumulation, fructose was more
effective than glucose at inducing hepatocellular injury in mice fed MCD diets for 21 days (16).
This essentially means that when measured in mmol / L («millimolar»), blood glucose and ketones should be equal, or even achieving ketone levels that are
higher than the glucose levels may be preferable.
Soon our bodies become overloaded with fructose, the liver can no longer handle the quantity, and it becomes more
toxic than glucose.
Ketones are very clean energy sources as they produce far less metabolic waste and free radicals
than glucose metabolism.
Ketones provide a ready source of clean - burning fuel for the brain that leave behind fewer free
radicals than glucose does.
Chlorophyll, the pigment that makes plants green, acts as a blood cleanser, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and detoxifying pigment that heals cell walls, oxygenates the blood, absorbs carcinogens and provides a fuel source
cleaner than glucose.
Fructose has a high glycemic load but a low glycemic index and can cause more cellular
damage than glucose.
In fact, attempts at direct glucose conversion created so many impurities that it was simpler to start with the fructose, less common in
nature than glucose.
Some critics argue they aren't as accurate as checking blood levels, but they can provide some indication of whether you're in ketosis, they're less
expensive than glucose meters, and you don't have to prick your finger multiple times daily.
As for ketones, they're like superfuel for the body, generating steady, clean - burning energy with less toxic by -
products than glucose (which is great for the brain).
Fruit is a decent source of carbohydrates but provides more
sucrose than glucose and as such is not as productive for a post workout meal.
For instance, studies have shown that when you eat the FODMAP inulin, it produces 70 % more gas in the large
intestine than glucose (4).
It's worse for the body because fructose is not as good as dampening hunger as glucose is, which means that you are liable to eat much more fructose
than glucose before you get full.
Lactulose may be slightly less
fermentable than glucose, but its ability to traverse the colon outweighs any difference in fermentation.
On a ketogenic diet the fuel (fat) is favorable as fat has much better energy density, it yields more ATP and thus energy per
unit than glucose.
-LSB-...] that fructose is something like 20 times more
fattening than glucose (starches), as we discussed last week.
In this study, fructose led to greater post prandial serum levels of lactate and fructose but surprisingly had lower levels of plasma free fatty
acids than glucose.
They point out that the prevalence of fructose, mostly in the form of high fructose corn syrup, is ten times more
reactive than glucose in inducing glycation (for a detailed discussion of this, see the video below: «5 Medical Doctors with Gary Taubes and Robb Wolf Discuss Coconut Oil and Alzheimer's Disease».)