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Expert
No I’m not a zombie hungry for brains. Just feeling like a zombie without a brain today
But if our brains require approximately 150g of glucose a day to function, doesn’t that mean we (T2 with our own insulin) should all be able to eat that many carbs at least, knowing our brain will burn it regardless of whatever our other cells fail to do because of insulin resistance? Or are our brains insulin resistant too? and only snacking on the glucose feast 150g of carbs a day would represent to those of us on keto rather than eating it all?
Just how much gluconeogenisis is required when keto to provide the brain with the smorgasbord of glucose it seems to want in oreder to allow it to pick and choose nibbles whilst ignoring the bulk of it? It appears it might ultimately use 150 a day but it can’t use everything that’s offered so needs more offering, based on the first question I asked above, leaving the unused leftovers to sit in the blood and end up as fat cells.
Now I’ve typed this I‘m thinking if other cells can be IR why not the brain and it seems a silly question but I’ll ask it anyway.
But if our brains require approximately 150g of glucose a day to function, doesn’t that mean we (T2 with our own insulin) should all be able to eat that many carbs at least, knowing our brain will burn it regardless of whatever our other cells fail to do because of insulin resistance? Or are our brains insulin resistant too? and only snacking on the glucose feast 150g of carbs a day would represent to those of us on keto rather than eating it all?
Just how much gluconeogenisis is required when keto to provide the brain with the smorgasbord of glucose it seems to want in oreder to allow it to pick and choose nibbles whilst ignoring the bulk of it? It appears it might ultimately use 150 a day but it can’t use everything that’s offered so needs more offering, based on the first question I asked above, leaving the unused leftovers to sit in the blood and end up as fat cells.
Now I’ve typed this I‘m thinking if other cells can be IR why not the brain and it seems a silly question but I’ll ask it anyway.