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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Robbity" data-source="post: 1320351" data-attributes="member: 93179">We don't need any carbs at all for our brains to function!   if we did many of us on the forum would have been completely brain dead long ago! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite69" alt=":wideyed:" title="Wide Eyed    :wideyed:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":wideyed:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />If you go low enough carb for long enough your body does become keto/fat adapted (which is actually our natural state) and then your body  can and will happily switch fuels as required.  Carbs are easier to process so they will always be used first then fat  reserves will be  called upon.  This is how we're supposed to "work" (and we actually have far less capacity to store carb generated fuel than we do to store fatty fuel).  It's only the fairly recent (and incorrect) emphasis on high carb diets that has generally  caused us to be reliant on them.Robbity</blockquote>

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