minicivan

I am too tired to get into a long discussion and look up and verify the name of every acid and every step of every process etc. amino acids and other compounds involved just to be accurate. I am telling you that i have seen these points argued 1000 times already. I have no real interest in being 1001.

Again, you wrong about glucose. It is only a myth/misunderstanding that your brain only runs on glucose. One that is argued non-stop anytime someone attacks the idea of ketogenic diets as being harmful using the wrong logic that your brain can only run on glucose. There is only some parts of your brain that needs fuel from glucose and that is made in this case of ketogenic diets from amino acids.


So, with that, I leave you with a quote from wikipedia:

On the ketogenic diet, carbohydrates are restricted and so cannot provide for all the metabolic needs of the body. Instead, fatty acids are used as the major source of fuel. These are used through fatty-acid oxidation in the cell's mitochondria (the energy-producing part of the cell). Humans can convert some amino acids into glucose by a process called gluconeogenesis, but cannot do this for fatty acids. Since amino acids are needed to make proteins, which are essential for growth and repair of body tissues, these cannot be used only to produce glucose. This could pose a problem for the brain, since it is normally fuelled solely by glucose, and fatty acids do not cross the blood?brain barrier. Fortunately, the liver can use fatty acids to synthesise the three ketone bodies β-hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate and acetone. These ketone bodies enter the brain and substitute for glucose