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PudgePacket
on July 15, 2020
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Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
Humans can produce all the glucose they need when in nutritional ketosis or starvation ketosis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis
shlant
on July 15, 2020
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but does that make it the "default energy System"?
shock
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From an evolutionary standpoint it would make sense to evolve the ability to produce all the secondary "fuels" from the most abundant(primary) "fuel". I don't know if things are so in reality, alas.
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