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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 464734" data-attributes="member: 55568">Rate of decline has nothing to do with it. He is still above the safe lower limit. With meagre ingested glucose sources, the body is forced to convert glucose from non carbohydrate carbon sources such as the glucongenic amino acids. As Karen Heron states, "your body adjust to using your fat store as energy source". I put the link up for gluconeogenesis earlier in the thread.If anyone is interested in the biochemistry, see <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22414/" target="_blank">Food Intake and Starvation Induce Metabolic Changes </a>or if you want the basic summary, just read the link to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis" target="_blank">gluconeogenesis</a> that I posted earlier in the thread.</blockquote>

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