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Message: <blockquote data-quote="borofergie" data-source="post: 277755" data-attributes="member: 33342">Nope, if you eat less than 100g of carbs a day you are "in ketosis" to some extentAccording to Lyle MacDonald, if you eat:>100g of carbs then your brain is fuelled entirely by glucose<100g of carbs then your brain is fuelled by a mixture of ketones and glucose<50g of carbs then some people produce enough ketones to change the colour of a ketostix<25g of carbs your brain is almost entirely fuelled by ketones apart from 25g of glucose which can be produced by gluconeogenesisYou can short circuit this by eating massive amounts of protein (which is not a good idea for lots of the reasons described above).</blockquote>

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