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<blockquote data-quote="Member496333" data-source="post: 2012130"><p>I think that depends largely on who you ask. Some say that fat is our preferred source of fuel, and that glucose is supposed to allow us to store it. From an ancestral standpoint, it seems likely that this is correct. Certainly it’s what we would mostly have been doing before the advent of mass agriculture. From a biochemistry standpoint, we default to burning glucose before ketone bodies, but it’s my understanding that this is because it requires less energy to metabolise, thus being ideally suited in evolution to quickly let us gain body fat during the summer months when carbohydrate would have been more readily available to us.</p><p></p><p>Most certainly we seem on the whole to function much better as machines when we are not constantly using glucose for fuel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Member496333, post: 2012130"] I think that depends largely on who you ask. Some say that fat is our preferred source of fuel, and that glucose is supposed to allow us to store it. From an ancestral standpoint, it seems likely that this is correct. Certainly it’s what we would mostly have been doing before the advent of mass agriculture. From a biochemistry standpoint, we default to burning glucose before ketone bodies, but it’s my understanding that this is because it requires less energy to metabolise, thus being ideally suited in evolution to quickly let us gain body fat during the summer months when carbohydrate would have been more readily available to us. Most certainly we seem on the whole to function much better as machines when we are not constantly using glucose for fuel. [/QUOTE]
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