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All cells in your body "feed off of sugar" :) Reminds me of a piece I read once where they said "and when you consume salt, NaCl, you are consuming chlorine, a deadly element" Yes, over-consumption of sugar is bad, but all forms of sugar, including sucrose, are turned into glucose, which every human uses for energy.
A human body enjoys ketones. Glucose is a fuel source for the human body, but ketones is even better.
Ketones are acids that your body makes when it breaks down fat for energy12. They are a backup energy source when your cells can't get enough glucose, which is the primary energy source32. When your body produces ketones, it enters a state of ketosis, which means it is burning fat instead of glucose1. Ketones can fuel your brain and body in the absence of glucose3.
I tried the keto diet, and after a few days felt weak. Maybe it's for younger people :)
You have to eat animal fat to replace the sugar carbs for energy.
I like the carnivore diet better. And, plenty of energy. Plus, you can eat as much as you want and always stay at a perfect weight. It's a life saver.
Just started carnivore today.
Agreed
Only if you have a very small stomach to begin with. Carnies need to stop pretending that conservation of energy somehow doesn't apply if you don't eat any carbs, calories still matter and I have gained weight myself from eating multiple steak and chops a day, tracking calories is the only thing that has worked and the math doesn't really care what you're eating.
Carnivore diet is strictly meat right? I eat lots of meat, little cheese, little bit of everything else. Idk if i can stick to a carnivore diet. I love soup and make soup every few weeks and freeze the batch for later consuption.
Ketones don't fuel your body or brain entirely. You create new glucose from protein on ketosis, enough to survive (good macros) or too much that kicks you back out of ketosis (too much protein).
You can never drop glucose in the body to zero.
Also, entering full ketosis can take a few days so you were likely feeling the effects of low glucose while not in ketosis.
It takes dedication to get into and stay in ketosis, it's definitely not for everyone. But if you do stick with it, you definitely should feel a lot more energetic.
The first time I entered full ketosis I had too much energy to sleep for a week.
Maybe it's more for the young :)
And a lot of other vitamins, expect to become folate deficient rather quickly like I did.
True enough, but my understanding is that ketones are a alternate pathway for fueling a body that is under stress and can't use the preferred glucose pathway. Living under stress and existing by compensatory means is, as a rule, not a good way to go.
Not saying pure sugar is good. It needs to be accompanied by other nutrients to allow the body to properly make use of it. Of course, as you say, cancer cells can take advantage of it too, so there is that.
Yep, take a look at the diets of the world's oldest people and the common factor is they were high in animal protein but nowhere nearly as low carb as keto.
If the human body preferred to run on ketones then it would run on them all the time, not have the liver only manufacture them when it runs out of glucose. Ketones are the emergency fuel.
You are misunderstanding what ketones are and do.
You have glucose in your body at all times. This is a non-starter argument. Your brain needs glucose.
If you do not have enough glucose in your body, your body synthesizes it via gluconeogenesis from protein.
Excess protein (read: grossly improper macros) can actually kick you out of ketosis because your body will synthesize too much of it.
Ketones also aren't strictly "better" on their own. Sugar in excess is simply bad for you, but the key is "excess".
Ultimately ketosis is a newfangled diet that has a ton of benefits, but it is not -- and has not been -- the norm for basically the entirety of civilization. There have always been source of sugars in our foods.
Where keto wins is escaping a lot of the excess sugars in our foods, because all of that excess sugar makes us hungry, sore from inflammation and lethargic -- more than likely a function of the insulin release than sugar itself.
But it should not be mistaken for ketones themselves being better than glucose, because your body simply needs a certain amount of glucose and it creates it whether you want it to or not.
Fruit. Not cane sugar. That's poison.
The body doesn't really care where the sugar comes from, it's just much easier to overindulge on processed sugar. However keep in mind you can still push yourself into diabetes by eating a lot of fruit and fresh-squeezed juices, I track my nutrients and saw on a day I was eating a lot of fruit and making smoothies I was getting well over 100g of sugar total.
That does not mean people should consume commercially prepared sugar products and additives. You know what else loves sugar you eat, besides cancer cells? Parasites. You want a bunch of lit parasites? Go for it. Yee haw!